Popes have been interested in heresy and heretics for centuries, and language linking “papacy” and “heresy” continues to prosper down to our own day. The language root of “heresy ...

which recommended that Catholics detach them selves from an emotional dependence on the papacy. Helmsing asked that the editors of the paper “change their misguided and evil policy” or at the ...

Torture, burning at the stake and other punishment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tribunals ... has dedicated a good deal of his papacy to the theological question ...

A conservative group of Catholic priests and theologians called for Pope Francis to be declared a heretic because they ... consider stripping him of the papacy if he does not show "true repentance." ...