SAN ANTONIO — A former Canyon Lake-area priest has been excommunicated and removed from the priesthood after a Catholic Church tribunal found him guilty of schism for rejecting the authority of the pope, according to the Archdiocese of San Antonio.
John Mary Foster, founder of the Mission of Divine Mercy near Canyon Lake, had been a priest with the Archdiocese of San Antonio since 2009. Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller announced the action against Foster in a public notice dated Aug. 14…