Excommunicated Hermits Fight Back

The three Westray hermits - Father Stephen de Kerdrel, Sister Colette Roberts and Brother Damon Kelly - reacted on December 28 to their Christmas "excommunication" by Argyll and Isles Bishop Brian McGee.

They call it “heartless,” and stress that “it hardly shows the spirit of mercy so extolled by Pope Francis.”

The three do not retract anything of their summer declaration through which they withdrew their obedience from Francis and severed communion with the Holy See.

Now, they accuse McGee and his fellow bishops of throwing the flock to the wolves by not confronting Francis who encourages Communion for adulterers, preaches that the wicked are "annihilated," and that God "wills all religions," and allows Pachamama sacrifices.

They call Francis “the great betrayer of the Faith” and a “satanic Pied Piper" who wishes to change the Church according to his ideology.

The hermits warn the bishops that their "terrible silence at this Abomination of Desolation" will call down fire from Heaven on them.

They consider their excommunication “worthless and totally null and void.”

...they withdrew their obedience from Francis and severed communion with the Holy See.

Obviously, you don't obey Francis if he tells you to do something immoral. But withdrawing all obedience and severing communion with the Holy See sets them up for a valid excommunication.

Even though they said it wasn't a schism, it's not hard to understand why the bishop did what he did.

On the other hand, the bishop had months to do this, and his doing it on Christmas Eve is despicable and inexcusable. Also, from what I understand, he didn't go through it canonically, exactly like the bishop who excommunicated Fr. Vaughn Treco.

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