Posted on 02/04/2017 4:43:27 PM PST by ebb tide
Against the evidence there is little to argue. The outstretched hand of Pope Bergoglio to the Society of St. Pius X is the same, which has recently dealt blows to the Order of Malta and the Franciscans of the Immaculate. The story of the Order of Malta ended with the unconditional surrender of the Grand Master and the return of power to Albrecht von Boeselager along with the powerful German group he represents.
The story was summarized in these terms by Riccardo Cascioli of La Nuova Bussola quotidiana: “the one responsible for the moral drift of the Order has been reinstated and he who tried to stop it was sent home”.
This happened in full disregard for the sovereignty of the Order, as is clear from the letter of January 25, addressed to the members of the Sovereign Council by the Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on behalf of the Holy Father, through which the Holy See has in fact commissioned the Order.
It would be logical that the more than 100 States that maintain diplomatic relations with the Order of Malta, would now withdraw their ambassadors, since from the moment of the papal intervention, relations can be held directly with the Vatican, for which the order now depends in everything.
The contempt which Pope Francis shows towards law extends to the international law as well as the Italian civil law.
A decree issued by the Congregation for Religious with the consent of the Pope, requires Father Stefano Maria Manelli, superior of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, not to communicate with the media, nor appear in public; not to participate in any initiative or meetings of any kind; and above all "to return within the limit of 15 days from delivery of this decree, the economic assets managed by civil associations and any other sum that is at his disposal to the full availability of the individual institutes", that is, to donate to the Congregation for Religious assets of which, as was confirmed by the Court of Review of Avellino, Father Manelli does not have, because they belong to legally recognized associations by the Italian State.
"In 2017, in the Church of Mercy," says Marco Tosatti, "The only thing missing here is the strappado (or the cord), and the iron mask, and the list is complete (referring to instruments of torture)”.
What's more, Abp. Ramon C. Arguelles, Archbishop of Lipa in the Philippines, came to know of his resignation from a statement by the Vatican press office.
The reasons for the decision is ignored but it can figure it out: Abp. Arguelles has canonically recognized an association that gathered a group of ex-seminarians of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, who left the religious institute after the commissioning, in order to study and prepare for the priesthood in full freedom and independence. That however is a sin and one that is considered unforgivable.
Hence the question arises whether Pope Francis is not a violent Pope, intending here the true sense of this term. Violence is not and exercise of cruel force, but rather the force that is being used in an unlawful manner, in defiance of the law, to achieve ones goal.
The wish of Bp. Bernard Fellay to regularize the canonical position of the Society of St. Pius X with an agreement that nothing will undermine the identity of his institute is certainly commendable, but the question arises: Is it opportune to be placed under the legal umbrella of Rome in the very moment when the law is being ignored, or worse yet, being used as a means to crack down on those who want to remain faithful to Catholic faith and morals?
Short answer to the question at the end of the op-ed? No.
Wow. Just wow. Excellent, informative link...
Prayers for Holy Mother Church.
If the Pope is claiming to accept a resignation that has never been tenured, it seems to me a case for Edward Peters.
Some one who would do such a thing makes Nixon on a bad day look good.
to crack down on those who want to remain faithful to Catholic faith and morals?”
These are NOT the faith and morals of the New (heretical) Catholic Church. This trend will not be reversed because the Magisterium is mostly in agreement with Bergoglio. When he is dead and gone another like him will be put in his place. Even if someone not quite so extreme does take his place, there will be no undoing of recent changes....the Gates of Hell hath indeed prevailed.
I’m not a canon lawyer, but I think I can say with confidence that a bishop can be deposed by the Pope for any reason or no reason, and that there is no recourse.
The reason, though, is despicable. The Pope squashed the FFI, and has been punishing bishops around the world for taking in any former members. The Pope wants them starving in the gutter, or, at best, working at Starbuck’s.
This putative Pope has spent almost four years squashing people like bugs. He is utterly lawless, and a rank fraud. Someone recently wrote that his public persona—jolly, humble—is the phoniest thing about him.
I think that you may be right, but I suspect that there is a different way to go about doing it canonically. One way of retiring a Bishop is accepting a tenured resignation, and there are mechanisms for doing that. Saying that one has retired a bishop by using those mechanisms when crucial elements are absent seems, to me, not to work.
The Pope can do anything the Church—and that means the Cardinals—let him get away with.
In the short term, that is pretty much the case, especially if those to whom he is doing it and by whom he is doing it go along, which usually happens.
But if an act is actually invalid, the charade may eventually collapse.
I think the majority of Cardinals and the bishop are betting that Bergoglio dies in a year or two or three, and then nobody has to resolve anything.
I think a fair number of other people are thinking similar thoughts.
That said, if this Archbishop doesn’t put up a fuss now but chooses to do so later, I think the resolution might very well be in his favour.
Don’t misunderstand me. I think it will be terrible for the Church if the problem of Bergoglio is solved by his death. The healthiest thing for the Church would be if, somehow, we see a disgraced Cardinal Bergoglio shuffling onto a plane headed back to obscurity in Buenos Aires.
The only way I see that happening is if he opts to voluntarily resign and accompanies the resignation with a list of mea culpas rather than a list of accomplishments.
It is a very rare person who can do anything approaching that sort of thing.
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