Two clerics in Italy, one formerly a diocesan priest and the other a member of a religious order, have been sanctioned recently for the crime of schism, as both have publicly argued that Pope Francis was never validly elected and thus constitutes an “anti-pope.”
The Archdiocese of Sassari on the Italian island of Sardinia announced on Nov. 13 that Fernando Maria Cornet, a native Argentinian who was ordained to the priesthood in 1992 and who served in Sassari since 2011, has been dismissed from the clerical state by order of Pope Francis.
Meanwhile, reports also suggest that Father Giorgio Maria Faré has been dismissed from the Discalced Carmelites after a deadline imposed by the order’s leadership for renouncing his positions passed, and he too may soon be facing a laicization procedure.
Both men have prominently propounded the theory of Francis’s illegitimacy. Cornet did so last year in a book titled Habmus antipapam? Investigations in honor of the truth, while Faré laid out his views in a booklet titled I Won’t Deliver the Lion and reaffirmed them in a YouTube video.
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