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  • Pope Francis personally intervenes to dissolve flourishing, faithful priestly order

    04/23/2018 4:08:31 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 15 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | April 23, 2018 | Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent
    If Italian Vaticanist Marco Tosatti had not told the story of the Fraternity of the Holy Apostles of Brussels, no one would have known that Pope Francis personally intervened to dissolve this recently-created order last November. It was a personal decision made, it seems, on the insistence of the recently-named Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Beniamino Stella. It thus short-circuited the judgment of the Apostolic Signatura, where appeals against the dissolution of this young Fraternity had reached their final stage. The former members of the Fraternity – six priests who are now plain diocesan priests in Belgium...