[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Strangles Tradition-Friendly Bishop

Church Militant ^ | September 21, 2022 | Jules Gomes

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Vatican Strangles Tradition-Friendly Bishop

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TOULON, France (ChurchMilitant.com) The Vatican has imposed draconian restrictions on a French bishop who upset Pope Francis by welcoming traditionalist Catholics into his diocese. 

Bp. Dominique Rey with his priests

The bishop of Fréjus–Toulon, Dominique Rey, who was blocked from ordaining six deacons and four priests at the end of June, has revealed that the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops prohibited him from receiving new priests into the diocese.

Henceforth, a presbyteral council, and not the bishop, would make decisions regarding the reception of new priests, Rey told 150 diocesan priests at a meeting on Thursday. The Code of Canon Law (canon 495) prescribes a council of priests as an advisory body to the bishop. 

Rey told his clergy that Rome continued to remain silent on the fate of the candidates who had their ordinations suspended in June, thus exacerbating a "climate of uncertainty" in one of France's most flourishing dioceses. 

The Dicastery of Bishops, headed by scandal-plagued Cdl. Marc Ouellet, also ordered Rey to stop receiving new communities into the diocese. Rey, who belongs to the Emmanuel Community, has incurred Rome's wrath by offering hospitality to lay and clerical traditionalist and charismatic communities. 

Bishop Rey will also be compelled to force traditionalist priests to agree to concelebrate at the Chrism Mass and be available to celebrate the Ordinary Form as required, in accordance with the responsa ad dubium to Pope Francis' Traditionis Custodes — a motu proprio severely restricting the Traditional Latin Mass.

Ouellet's dicastery is further ordering Bp. Rey to establish an audit of the communities in the diocese. The audit will be overseen by "visitators" with canonical, ...

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