SALT LAKE CITY – The creator of a calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday ... but not their trademark white shirts, in modest poses. The men also were ...

Everyone knows that the strictest penalty in the Catholic Church is excommunication. In contemporary conversations it is billed as the ultimate harsh punishment for sinners and heretics.

The creator of a calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday after ... but not their trademark white shirts, in modest poses. The men also were photographed ...

Thank you for supporting local journalism. To the modern ear, excommunication evokes images of dueling popes, Protestant heretics, the Spanish Inquisition and Henry VIII. It is seen as spiritual ...