How has the church traditionally dealt with political figures who have run afoul of the church, or at least of churchmen?

When Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, was asked at a press conference in Rome on April 23 whether Senator John F. Kerry should be denied Communion, he responded: “The law of the church is clear. The church exists in the United

First Communion is a powerful church and family ritual; no one who has been present can miss its importance for the children taking part.

Why do we need ministers of Communion? Why not just pass the eucharistic bread and wine and let people take it themselves?

Why and how did the celibate state became a requirement for ordination?

Nowhere in the current catechism is there any treatment of a belief that was part of the common teaching of the church for over 700 years.