Pope Francis Kisses Sick Man With Boils Showing The Healing Power Of Compassion

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399. It reads as though the second sentence

was added on by the Archbishop, since supposedly it wasn't actually explained why he was excommunicated. If there's no official explanation by the Vatican itself any number of reasons could be stated. Maybe in Hart's view it was for that reason. Maybe he brought attention to it.

We don't know but the most obvious reason would be that he publicly resigned from his parish, actually left the church and then started his own church. Excommunication does occur for that reason. I personally knew a girl whose father was excommunicated for a similar reason: he met her mother while a priest (she wasn't Catholic), fell in love, resigned and then married outside of the church into his wife's faith. A couple of years later he was excommunicated and that was the most logical reason for it, though technically no reason is given.