ROME – A priest from the Italian diocese of Livorno has received a decree of excommunication less than 12 hours after delivering a homily describing the pontiff as “an anti-pope usurper” and a mason.
Fr Ramon Guidetti, 48, parish priest of the Church of San Ranieri in Guasticce in Livorno since 2017, noted in his homily for the New Year’s vigil Mass that December 31 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI, who shocked the world when he relinquished office in 2013.
Referring to Pope Francis, Fr Guidetti said: “There has been a schism for 10 years, there is a masonry that governs. The bishops and cardinals know that he is not the Pope, they know but they are silent.”
