Pope Francis goes to Greece this week to meet the Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Monsignor Paul McPartlan of Catholic ... is called the great schism.

And yes, there likely will be a schism: The right-wing people will ... To the editor: Canon law in the Catholic Church states that “people obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are ...

Recently a community of Poor Clare nuns in Spain announced their decision to leave the Catholic Church, thus committing the canonical crime of schism and ... disturbance of public order, the ...

Pope Francis said Tuesday he was "not afraid" of a schism in the Roman Catholic Church ... The most famous breakaway from the Church was the so-called Great Schism of 1054 between Eastern and ...

Conservative and liberal Catholics don’t agree on much at the moment, but they do agree on one thing: The Catholic Church is headed toward a schism. The conflict they’re predicting has its ...

But what is schism? Most fundamentally, schism is a canonical crime. It is important to note that while the Catholic Church’s Code ... that was officially “public knowledge.” ...