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Church in Italy

Italian priest excommunicated after calling pope ‘usurper’

The Diocese of Livorno said that the priest had committed a public ‘act of a schismatic nature.’

Luke Coppen
Jan 03, 2024
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An Italian diocese announced Monday that a pastor had incurred excommunication following a public “act of a schismatic nature.”

The parish of San Ranieri in Guasticce, northwest Italy. Public Domain.

The Diocese of Livorno in northwest Italy said Jan. 1 that Fr. Ramon Guidetti had violated canon 751 of the Code of Canon Law at a Mass on New Year’s Eve at …

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