Excommunication

“The group is called the Society of St. Pius X, or SSPX. It has spent decades claiming to defend the true Catholic tradition against a church it sees as too modern, too open, too willing to change…. SSPX triggered excommunications and pushed its whole society into schism.” - RNS

An Argument to Turn to Jesus Before the Bar

“In all my travels around the church in America, I rarely hear of people applying the teachings of Jesus or Paul to put church members on trial,” Mr. Jones said. “But when I do, it’s inevitably in a very conservative and controlling church. They’re the modern-day Pharisees.”