Conciliar Sect Laicizes Priest for Denouncing Antipope Leo XIV as Usurper
The EWTN News portal (August 19, 2026) reports that the “Archbishop” of San Antonio, Gustavo García-Siller, has declared “Father” John Mary Foster guilty of schism, dismissed him from the clerical state, and forbidden the faithful from attending his “Masses” or supporting his “Mission of Divine Mercy.” Foster, incardinated in 2009, allegedly called “Pope” Francis and “Pope” Leo XIV “usurpers,” omitted their names from the Eucharistic Prayer, and disseminated private revelations claiming Leo XIV “is not a true pope.” A neo-church tribunal authorized by the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” conducted a year-long process, imposing latae sententiae excommunication and laicization. García-Siller equates Catholicism with communion with the current claimant to Peter’s See, warning that schismatics “always result in splintered communities.” This farce exposes the conciliar sect’s totalitarian enforcement of allegiance to its false hierarchy, while the true schism is the neo-church’s apostasy from Christ the King.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar Hierarchy and Its “Judicial” Farce
The entire proceeding is a theatrical exercise in nullity. The “Archbishop” García-Siller, the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,” and the “tribunal of independent canon lawyers” derive their authority from the 1983 Code of the pseudo-church, a legislative corpus promulgated by the antipope John Paul II, which itself flows from the heretical Vatican II. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns, “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19) – a principle the conciliar sect has inverted, making itself a creature of the modern state and its own novel theology. The “judgment” against Foster is not an ecclesiastical sentence but an administrative act of a paramasonic structure purging a dissident who threatens its narrative of legitimacy.
The Nature of True Schism: The Neo-Church’s Secession from Christ the King
García-Siller declares: “To be Catholic is to be in communion with the pope, the bishop of Rome and the successor of Saint Peter…” This definition is the heresy of papalolatry, substituting the Vicar of Christ for Christ Himself as the principle of unity. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingship is the foundation of all authority: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Encyclical Annum Sacrum, cited in Quas Primas). The conciliar “popes” – from John XXIII to Leo XIV – have publicly taught religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality, doctrines condemned by the Syllabus (Errors 55, 77-80) and Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Props. 52-56). A manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Therefore, the true schismatics are those who adhere to the usurpers in the Vatican, severing themselves from the Church of Christ which “cannot depend on anyone’s will” (Quas Primas).
The Invalidity of the New Rite Ordination and “Sacraments”
Foster was “incardinated” in 2009, ordained in the Pauline Rite of 1968, which abolished the essential form and intention for the sacerdotal priesthood (sacerdotium) by suppressing the explicit intention to offer the Propitiatory Sacrifice. As Leo XIII defined in Apostolicae Curae, a rite that does not signify the Sacrifice and the Priesthood is invalid. Foster’s “Masses” – whether including or omitting the antipope’s name – are not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a cena, a Protestantized memorial. The neo-church’s prohibition against attending them is inadvertently correct, though for the wrong reason: no Catholic may participate in the Novus Ordo service, which is idolatry and sacrilege, not merely “schismatic.”
Private Revelations as a Tool of Deception: The “Mission of Divine Mercy”
The article notes Foster published “messages allegedly received from God, Jesus, and the Blessed Mother by a member of the Mission of Divine Mercy.” This bears all the hallmarks of the false apparition phenomenon analyzed in the False Fatima Apparitions document: “The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship… The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” The “Mission of Divine Mercy” – likely a neo-church parody of the Sacred Heart devotion – substitutes private revelation for the public Deposit of Faith, a Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili (Props. 21, 22, 58-60). The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima was “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion”; similarly, these “messages” serve to divert attention from the apostasy within the conciliar structures, offering a false supernatural credential to a false church.
The Neo-Church’s “Canon Law” as an Instrument of Persecution
The “tribunal” invoked latae sententiae excommunication for “refusal of submission to the Roman pontiff.” But the 1983 Code’s Canon 751 defines schism as “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.” This definition presupposes the validity of the claimant. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates from Bellarmine and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: A Pope who is a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope ipso facto, before any declaration. The “popes” of the conciliar sect are manifest heretics by their public adherence to Vatican II’s errors. Therefore, refusal of submission to them is not schism but fidelity. The neo-church uses its pseudo-law to “strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it” (Pius IX, Syllabus introduction) – here, to silence a witness, however imperfect, against its usurpation.
The Duty of Catholics: Resistance to the Abomination of Desolation
García-Siller urges the faithful to “pray for Foster’s repentance and reconciliation with the Church.” The true Church is not the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, but the remnant preserving the integral Catholic faith of the pre-1958 Magisterium, the valid Sacraments, and the Social Kingship of Christ. Foster’s “repentance” would mean submitting to the Antichrist’s vicar. The faithful are commanded by Pius XI: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” (Quas Primas). Catholics must refuse all collaboration with the neo-church – its “Masses,” its “sacraments,” its “bishops,” its “canon law” – and cleave to the Tradition that alone transmits the life of grace. The laicization of Foster is not a tragedy but a manifestation of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3), where the “man of sin… sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.”
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Archbishop of San Antonio announces laicization of priest for schism and disobedience to the pope (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.08.2026