Posted on 04/13/2022 7:36:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Fairfield Carmelites ‘were basically being told that if they want to follow St. Teresa of Ávila, with the constitutions that she wrote … that they are basically not true children of the Church,’ said Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean.
Disclaimer: After posting about the dismissal yesterday there was quite a stir, and some people involved in the situation asked LifeSiteNews to remove the interview and article below. We reached out to Fr. Maximilian Mary and he replied:
Was Daniel silent as Susanna was unjustly being led off to her execution? Not in my Bible. The holy prophet Ezekiel writes, “And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman” (Ez 33:6). And the gentle Doctor, St. Francis De Sales, writes, “It is a work of charity to shout: ‘Here is the wolf!’ when it enters the flock or anywhere else.” In the end, this is not about this or that religious community; the agenda is much bigger. The Modernists believe that religious life needs to “evolve” with the spirit of the times. This error was condemned over 100 years ago by Pope St. Pius X. I take back nothing that I have said and what I have said is motivated out of the pure love for Christ, His Church, and His faithful. “God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him” (1 Jn 4:16).
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews’ Jim Hale, Father Maximilian Mary Dean, a former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate, revealed that he has just......
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I don’t think the Vatican has the authority to actually “fire” this chaplain as far as civil law is concerned. Surely, this community is legally independent and can do as it pleases with the only consequences being canonical. They can expelled from the Church under canon law for disobedience etc but nobody is going to send the sheriff to make them obey. It’s an important legal distinction relied upon by the Church whenever it is sued for clerical misconduct: they typically claim that the offender was not their employee.
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So now the vatican has turned against the followers of St Theresa, a Doctor of the Church. Well, why not. She was hunted by the Inquisition for heresy when she was alive. History echoes.
It would help if this article explained what exactly the sisters and their chaplains were doing wrong in Bergoglio’s opinion.
My guess: daily Latin Mass.
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