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  2. Loss of clerical state - Wikipedia

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    New regulations issued in 2009 regarding priests who abandon their ministry for more than five years and whose behavior is a cause of serious scandal have made it easier for bishops to secure this removal of clerical status from such priests even against the priests' wishes. [16]

  3. Defrocking - Wikipedia

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    Whereunto one of them said, in that they were but bishops, they were his inferiors, and not competent judges; but being the pope's delegates, they might take his pall. And so they did, and so proceeding took every thing in order from him, as it was put on.

  4. List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church

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    The priest also said a married person who chose to have an affair, heterosexual or otherwise, would not be unfaithful as long as that person's spouse allowed it. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] [ 138 ] Fr Greg Reynolds of Melbourne, Australia was excommunicated in 2013 for continuing to celebrate Mass when not permitted, advocating the attempted ordination of ...

  5. David Hornsby - Wikipedia

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    David Alan Hornsby [1] (born December 1, 1975) is an American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for a recurring role as defrocked priest Matthew "Rickety Cricket" Mara on the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for which he also writes and produces.

  6. Bergen priest's movie, filmed in NJ, is now streaming. How to ...

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    In a pivotal scene in the movie "Trinity's Triumph," a monsignor tells a group of seminarians about the loneliness of leading a celibate life. One student is skeptical: He won't be tempted, he ...

  7. Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    No one is automatically excommunicated for any offense if, without any fault of his own, he was unaware that he was violating a law (1983 CIC 1323 n. 2) or that a penalty was attached to the law (1983 CIC 1324 §1 n. 9). The same applies if one was a minor, had the imperfect use of reason, was forced through grave or relatively grave fear, was ...

  8. Diocese of Manchester adds three names to list of priest ...

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    Apr. 10—The Diocese of Manchester has added three names to its online list of dozens of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse going back to 1950, church officials announced this week.

  9. Seal of confession in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Let the priest, says the great Council of Lateran, take special care, neither by word or sign, nor by any other means whatever, to betray in the least degree the sinner." [ 6 ] Pope Pius X in his catechism taught that "the confessor is bound by the seal of confession under the gravest sin and under threat of the severest punishments both ...