ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between some Orthodox and Catholics centuries after Christianity was cleaved in half.
Three hermits living on a Scottish island have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church after accusing Pope Francis of heresy in an online declaration.
The Vatican has issued a stronger statement to refute claims alleging that Pope Francis has said Jesus Christ is not God, as there have been complaints of an earlier “tepid” response.
The former papal nuncio to the United States, who has alleged the existence of a “gay mafia” among the bishops and clergy of the Catholic Church, says Pope Francis “himself” is “provoking” a schism because of his support for the Amazon Synod in Rome next month.
Pope Francis said he has always been a doctrinal conservative and takes accusations of being a heretic with a grain of salt.
A group of 19 Catholics, including clergy and scholars, have accused Pope Francis of heresy in an open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis walked back an earlier statement Wednesday on God “willing” a plurality of religions, saying that in reality God only permits the existence of many religions.
An app currently available on the Google Play Store allows users to report incidents of religious “heresy” to the Muslim-majority Indonesian government.
Leaders from a number of progressive, mostly mainline U.S. Christian churches have rejected President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies in favor of “global development.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke has once again voiced deep concern over the direction the Catholic Church is taking under Pope Francis, saying that the pope “not only refuses to clarify things” by clearly proclaiming Catholic doctrine but also “feeds confusion” in the Church.
For the sake of his peace of mind, Pope Francis says he doesn’t read websites that accuse him of heresy, which he attributes to “resistance” to necessary reforms in the Vatican.
A group of clergy and lay scholars have made public a letter delivered to Pope Francis last month accusing the pontiff of upholding a series of heretical positions concerning “marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments.”
TEL AVIV – An Israeli man has petitioned a court for a restraining order against God, citing three years of mistreatment at the hands of the Almighty.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A 16-year-old boy was beheaded by the notorious fundamentalist organization Islamic State for not attending mandatory Friday prayer services in the border town of Jarabulus, Syria, the Kurdish News Agency reported Sunday. The boy was arrested
This week Pope Francis received delegates of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, who came to Rome to celebrate a “Liturgy of Reconciliation” on the occasion of the six hundredth anniversary of the burning at
