Six Arkansas nuns have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for heresy for embracing the movement of a Canadian group, the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.The diocese said the six from the Good Shepherd Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge in Hot Springs were excommunicated for "knowingly and deliberately" embracing the teachings of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples, also known as the Army of Mary.
The excommunicated sisters are Sister M. Gerard Lalancette, Sister M. Thomas O'Keefe, Sister Marietta Fecteau, Sister Mary Anne Lalancette, Sister Mary Theresa Dionee and Sister Theresa Marie Lalancette, the diocese said.
Excommunication bars the nuns from participating in the church liturgy and receiving communion or other sacraments.
The excommunication does not bar the nuns from attending mass, however.
The diocese said the action was taken after the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration that the Army of Mary's teachings were heretical, and automatically excommunicated any who embraced the doctrine.
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