CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “Priest Excommunicated, Parish Closed After Criticism of Conciliar Popes” – Church Militant

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“A priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has been excommunicated, and his parish permanently closed, months after he criticized certain actions of various popes both during and after the Second Vatican Council. On April 1, Bp. Steven J. Lopes announced he had issued a decree of excommunication against Fr. Vaughn Treco, pastor of St. Bede the Venerable in suburban Minneapolis, citing ‘rejection of the magisterial authority of an Ecumenical Council and a series of popes.’ …”

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