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Vatican excommunicates Viganò for schism

July 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 165

Archbishop Carlo Viganò. / Credit: Edward Pentin/National Catholic Register

Rome Newsroom, Jul 5, 2024 / 09:35 am (CNA).
The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announ… […]

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What are schism and excommunication in the Catholic Church?

June 25, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

null / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 25, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
Recently a community of Poor Clare nuns in Spain announced their decision to leave the Catholic Church, thus committing the canonical crime of schism and incurrin… […]

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Former U.S. nuncio Viganò to undergo Church trial for schism, rejecting Pope Francis 

June 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 60

Archbishop Carlo Vigano. / Credit: Edward Pentin/National Catholic Register

CNA Newsroom, Jun 20, 2024 / 14:19 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Thursday claimed that the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has initiated … […]

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Excommunication looms for renegade group of Poor Clares in Spain 

June 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The Archbishop of Burgos, Mario Iceta, was appointed Pontifical Commissioner in the case. / Credit: Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 10, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
The Ecclesiastical Court of the Archbishopric of Burgos in Spain h… […]

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Answering Six Objections from the SSPX

March 14, 2023 Andrew Bartel 250

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has recently thrown down the glove in an interview with LifeSiteNews, claiming that those of us who believe the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is still in schism have “a very […]

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The Catholic Church in Germany after the Synodal Way: Three Scenarios

February 23, 2023 Neuer Anfang 8

The environment and the presumable consequences of the fifth general assembly of the Synodal Way, to be held from March 9 to 11, 2023, will lead to an historic turning point for the Catholic Church […]

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Vatican warning: Germany’s ‘Synodal Way’ poses ‘threat to the unity of the Church’

July 21, 2022 Catholic News Agency 48

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Vatican City, Jul 21, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).
The Vatican has issued another warning of a new schism from Germany coming out of the “Synodal Way.”“The ‘Synodal Way’ in Germany does not have the power to compel b… […]

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‘Is a new Reformation dawning in Germany?’ Initiative writes to bishops around the world

February 3, 2022 Catholic News Agency 8

The ‘Synodal Way’ began Dec. 1, 2019. / Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch.

Munich, Germany, Feb 3, 2022 / 15:25 pm (CNA).
As the opening assembly of the Synodal Way is taking place in Germany, the “New Beginning” initiative has warned of a schism arisi… […]

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How St. Irenaeus helped save the early Church from schism

January 24, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

St. Irenaeus depicted in the apse of Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Charleston, South Carolina. / Andrew Gould via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Vatican City, Jan 24, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
St. Irenaeus once helped to save the 2nd-century Church… […]

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A Response to Archbishop Viganò’s Letter about Vatican II

August 13, 2020 Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. 208

I very much appreciate Archbishop Viganò taking the time to respond to my article that appeared in Inside the Vatican on July 27, 2020. However, I found his response, posted on August 10th at Inside […]

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