St. Cyprian was the Bishop of Carthage in the mid-Third Century, 60 years before Christianity was legalized and over 100 years before the Church canonized the Bible. In St. Cyprian’s ...

"Adultery, fraud, and manslaughter are mortal sins." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatise VII," c. 250 A.D. "The clergyman who is deposed for mortal sin, shall not be excommunicated." St. Basil the ...