Posted on 02/06/2017 6:11:23 PM PST by ebb tide
No Reasons Given:
According to Marco Tosatti, there is still a very strong resistanceamong the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Immaculate against the commissioners Pope Francis has imposed on them. Tosatti points out that to this very day the Vatican has not explained the reasons why it cracked down on the order almost four years ago.
Pressure:
Tosatti writes that Fr Manelli received last week a Vatican decree which writes: "Father Stefano Manelli is required to issue a statement in which he declares to accept and comply with all provisions of the Holy See and to urge the Franciscan Friars and the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate to display the same behavior.”
Money:
The Vatican wants Fr Manelli to hand over the patrimony of the order, which until now, is in the hands of lay-people. Fr Manelli is further not allowed to make any public statement, to appear in public or to have any contact with the members of his order.
Sacked:
On February 2nd Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles was sacked months after being rebuked by the Vatican for having approved the 1948 Marian apparitions in the Lipa Carmelite Monastery. He also received into his archdiocese refugees of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. A successor has already been appointed. Riposte-catholique.fr writes that Arguelles has never offered his resignation.
Wrong Friends:
Over the weekend posters have appeared in Rome, which criticize Pope Francis for running the Church without mercy. Yesterday, the anti-Catholic Roman daily furiously defended Bergoglio. The article is written by Alberto Melloni, an ultraliberal Church historian criticized by Joseph Ratzinger for promoting a hermeneutic of rupture.
Gee, at this point, I'd insist on proof of life.
That's going to be hard for him to do especially since, "Father Stefano Manelli is required to issue a statement in which he declares to accept and comply with all provisions of the Holy See and to urge the Franciscan Friars and the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate to display the same behavior.”
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