Posted on 07/16/2022 9:55:57 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
Although this has not yet been announced officially, the news has already been leaked: Tomorrow, July 17, the Archlayman of Chicago, ‘Cardinal’ Blase Cupich, will announce that the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) will be shut down in Chicago effective August 1.
The ICKSP is a Traditional Latin Mass community founded in 1990 that uses only the Roman Missal of 1962. It is one of the so-called “Ecclesia Dei communities”, meaning they have always been in full communion with the Vatican II Church and are operating on the basis of the indult granted by “Pope” John Paul II in the Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei issued on July 2, 1988. Their provincial headquarters for the United States are in Chicago, under the watchful Modernist eye of Blase Cupich.
On July 14, the well-known blogging Rev. John Zuhlsdorf (aka ‘Father Z’) had already released a cryptic prayer request “to avert a serious act of persecution”, but he did not provide any specifics.
On July 15, David L. Gray was apparently the first one to reveal details, as follows: __________ Blase Cardinal Cupich is Stripping the Institute of Christ the King of their Ability to Celebrate the Holy Mass in his Little Fiefdom, where their US Base is Headquartered – Effective August 1, 2022
Will be Announced at Sunday Mass at the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest on Woodlawn Ave., in Chicago
Fr. John Lovell of the Coalition for Canceled Priest to Appear on The David L. Gray Show Monday Morning [July 18] to Discuss __________
Since then, ‘Father Z’ has updated his original prayer request post with details:
Cupich of Chicago has told the members of the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago, that he is effectively shutting them down as of 1 August. This will be formally announced on Sunday [July 17] at the Institute’s church on the South Side of Chicago.
No Masses. Nothing. 31 July is their last day to function.
I’m sorry that the Institute itself was not able to break the news.
(John Zuhlsdorf, “ACTION ITEM: Prayer to avert a serious act of persecution – UPDATED”, Fr. Z’s Blog, July 15, 2022; bold print given.)
...because Crazy Frank’s wing of the Church owns them, which means that real Catholics can build their own. Excommunication? That has about as much cachet now as impeachment.
SSPV, CMRI, and those associated with the late Bp. Dolan are sedevacantists.
RCI (which is headed by Bishop Donald Sanborn) and some other foreign apostolates like IMBC from Italy are sedeprivationists (which posit that the Vatican 2 pontiffs were duly-elected with legal title to the Papacy, yet did not formally attain to actual authority or jurisdiction due to their own impediments).
Either way, a long interregnum, although mysterious, is preferable to a Church that formally teaches error or introduces poison to her flock.
I’ll just leave this here:
“In the first half of the fifteenth century Cardinal Branda da Castiglione, who died in 1448, was legate in Milan. As part of his plan for reconciling Philip Mary Visconti, Duke of Milan, and the Holy See, he endeavoured to substitute the Roman Rite for the Ambrosian. The result was a serious riot, and the Cardinal’s legateship came to an abrupt end.”
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01394a.htm
Pope Paul VI alluded to that infection back in 1972 when he said the smoke of satan had entered the church.
Frank needs the Formoses treatment.
I would volunteer, by God, to personally throw his charred remains into the Tiber.
I didn’t support their fundraisers to rebuild the ICK shrine in Chicago because I had no confidence that the Institute would be allowed to remain there.
Chicago is also the Institute’s North American Provincial Headquarters. I always wondered how they managed to pull that one off in a diocese that has historically been run by faux Catholic bishops.
If there were an SPX parish within a reasonable distance I would have shifted to it already. 235 miles is too far and too expensive now.
If the ICK is really being shut down in Chicago, their most likely course of action is to sell their property and use the proceeds of the sale to buy or build a new headquarters in another diocese. They may even have all the legal standing they need to sue to Archdiocese of Chicago to recover the cost of the restoration work that has been done to the shrine up to this point.
A terrible waste! I was an occasional worshipper there in the couple of years just before they moved the Masses back into the church building. The priests there appeared to be devout and sincerely dedicated to the salvation and sanctification of souls. Blocking their work was not a good thing for Bishop Cupich to do.
From what I can see from online TLM directories, there are independent TLM chapels in Pensacola, Ft. Walton Beach, and Tallahassee.
The Nine vs. Lefebvre: We Resist You to Your Face. Written in 2008, it serves as a recounting of the events by the late Fr. Cekada, which does include discussion of property and legal issues.
I shall investigate Walton. That is 60 miles and I should be able to make it some Sundays depending on my work sked. I often work 1700 to 0700 Saturday nights.
**Both the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church have been infected and are now under the control of Satan.**+
Catholic Bashing again?
In my experience, U.S. courts have little patience for internal religious disputes like this. At the end of the day, the only thing that will typically matter is who holds the title to the property, and (as in the case of Chicago, where the ICK holds the title) what legally binding agreements are in place between the diocese and the organization that owns the property.
To me, a putative clergyman should act like the genuine article if he wants to be addressed with the conventional titles. So it’s “Mr. Cupich” and “Mr. Martin” to me. Anything else tarnishes the esteem of clergy and makes clerical status look like a technicality.
I’m LOVING Eastern Orthodoxy, everything the Latin Church used to be.
duh....quotemarks....
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