Bishop Peter Ingham has announced the excommunication of a
priest who is the offsider of the NSW South Coast cult leader known as the
Little Pebble.
The procedure for Fr Malcolm Broussard's excommunication was set in motion
after he attempted to have himself consecrated as a bishop without a mandate
from the Pope earlier this year.
Bishop Ingham announced Broussard's excommunication in an official decree
issued yesterday.
"It has come to my notice that on 30 March, 2003 in Bavaria, Germany, and
in clear and indisputable contravention of the universal law of the Catholic
Church, Fr Malcolm Broussard attempted to have himself consecrated as a
Bishop," he said in the decree.
The priest had been acting as Prelate for the so-called Order of St Charbel,
which was founded and headed by Mr William Kamm, known as the Little Pebble to
his followers.
Ingham said the ‘episcopal’ ordination of Fr Broussard was a schismatic act and
was not recognised by the Catholic Church.
"Fr Broussard has, by this action, incurred an excommunication from the
Catholic Church. This excommunication can be removed only by the Apostolic
See," he said.