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San Antonio Priest Laicized, Excommunicated After Calling Popes Francis and Leo 'Usurpers'
The archbishop said Foster kept publishing unauthorized messages and rejecting church authority after repeated warnings, despite the group claiming six members.
(OSV News) — A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was “found guilty of schism” has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to the archbishop of the archdiocese. Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller announced Aug. 14 that a tribunal of canon lawyers authorized by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith found John Mary Foster guilty of “a crime against the faith for his refusal of submission to the Roma…