heresy
In accusing Cardinal McElroy of heresy, Bishop Paprocki was aiming higher
By Mark Silk — March 9, 2023
(RNS) — The American episcopate’s anti-Francis faction takes it to a new level.
Frank Pavone, Leonard Feeney and the long story of Catholic fundamentalism
By Mark Silk — December 27, 2022
(RNS) — The defrocking of the anti-abortion crusader is the latest chapter in an old story.
Heresy isn’t the enemy in TikTok pastor’s new book
By Kathryn Post — October 12, 2022
(RNS) — ‘I’m not interested in playing the orthodoxy game,’ Brandan Robertson told RNS.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, firebrand who championed LGBTQ inclusion, has died
By Bob Smietana — September 12, 2021
(RNS) — Spong made headlines when he ordained the first openly gay male priest in the Episcopal Church.
Excommunicated hermits — and their cats — finally find peace
By Claire Giangravé — February 7, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — For the past 21 years, a pair of Catholic hermits has sought a place where they can hide from the world. They — and a lay woman friend — finally found happiness after being excommunicated from a church they say is heretical.
White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth
By Andre Henry — January 9, 2020
(RNS) — A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
Blasphemy isn’t just a problem in the Muslim world
By The Conversation — May 2, 2017
Many in the West treat blasphemy as an obsolete concept. A scholar argues blasphemy laws in the West suggest otherwise, while also sharing common features with such laws in the Muslim world.
Paris conference on deposing a heretical pope looks to the past, not the present
By Tom Heneghan — April 3, 2017
PARIS (RNS) It looked as if the two-day meeting in Paris could be the place where the next steps in the campaign against the pope were being worked out. It turned out to be nothing of the sort.
Top 5 ‘heresies’ of 2016: ‘One God,’ biblical authority and more
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 29, 2016
(RNS) As Christians prepared to mark 500 years since Martin Luther -- one of history's great heretics, or heroes, depending on your point of view -- 2016 found them debating theological questions most thought had been settled a millennium ago.
Infallibility and heresy
By Martin E. Marty — December 6, 2016
Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like “infallibility,” “heresy,” papal “plots,” “schism,” etc., as we do these days.
Is the pope Catholic? Francis dismisses critics of his teachings
By David Gibson — November 18, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) 'I don’t lose sleep over it,' the pontiff said in a new interview. Foes accusing him of 'Protestantizing' the church are legalists trying 'to foment divisions.'
Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions
By David Gibson — May 24, 2013
(RNS) Is Pope Francis endorsing heresy? It might look that way from headlines that made it seem as though the pontiff had said that everyone – even atheists! – were destined for heaven. What he actually said was boilerplate Catholic doctrine.
Why Ross Douthat thinks we’re ‘a nation of heretics’
By Daniel Burke — April 17, 2012
(RNS) New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics." In an interview with Religion News Service, Douthat explains his definition of heresy, why he thinks Mitt Romney and President Obama are both heretics, and why more Americans should argue about religion. By Daniel Burke.
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