Italian Priest Excommunicated for Calling Pope a ‘Usurper’

Father Ramon Guidetti, 48 and pastor of the Church of San Ranieri in Guasticce in Livorno since 2017, noted in his homily for the New Year’s vigil Mass that Dec. 31 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI, who shocked the world when he resigned in 2013. ...Guidetti touted a widespread conspiracy theory following Benedict XVI’s resignation that when he stepped down, he renounced what canon law defines as the ministerium, but not the petrine munus, meaning he gave up acting as pope, but not being pope.