former bishop expelled from Society of Saint Pius X, dies at 84 In 1976, he was ordained a priest within the SSPX. Upon his episcopal consecration, he was automatically excommunicated (latae ...

Weisenburger’s anti-Trump sentiment mirrors that of Pope Francis, who this week rebuked Trump’s approach to immigration.

Pope Francis appointed Tuesday a new leader of the Catholic Church in metro Detroit, naming Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger of Tucson, Arizona, as the next Archbishop of Detroit, replacing Allen ...

During a state Senate hearing on the bill Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Seattle bishop, Frank Schuster ... The penalty for breaking that seal is excommunication,” he said. Despite his opposition to the ...

Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly is urging Catholic voters ... who deliberately violates the seal of confession is automatically excommunicated. This week, Daly stressed his opposition to the measure ...

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated and then reinstated by the Vatican, but he was undone by his antisemitic views. By Adam Nossiter The Rev. Richard Williamson ...

Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge ... MacKillop had her own problems with church hierarchy. She was excommunicated for exposing an abusive priest. ACU began life as a collection of old convents ...

Excommunicated traditionalist Bishop Richard N. Williamson died Jan. 29 in a hospital in Margate, England, at the age of 84 after suffering a brain hemorrhage. The bishop's deat ...

His connection to the Society began when Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated him as a bishop in 1988, leading to his excommunication with others for lacking papal consent. Pope Benedict sought to ...

His excommunication was confirmed in a statement issued on behalf of the bishop. In their statement the diocese said: “Having ascertained the culpability of the offender and finding the ...