[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider blesses the construction of traditional Carmelite monastery in Florida

Bishop Schneider has previously spoken out against the suppression of another traditional Carmelite order in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, after Cor Orans, making it clear that they should remain loyal to their traditional charism.
In a 2022 interview with LifeSiteNews, he explained that these nuns could say the following to Pope Francis: “Holy Father, we cannot here obey because this will harm Mother Church. Evidently, we cannot collaborate in harming such a great treasure of our holy Mother Church or of our cloistered charism which the Church blessed since Saint Teresa, (for) more than four centuries. We will deprive the Church (if we obey), we will harm the Church, and we cannot collaborate in harming the Church.”
Schneider pointed out to Phil Lawler in another interview about the Fairfield situation that Pope Francis tried to defy “their proper charism to be cloistered” by mandating, via Cor Orans, that they “join so-called federations with the compulsory participation in periodical meetings, information sessions outside the cloister in different places, so that the sisters have to travel and then periodically to go out from the cloister.”

“And so this is a destruction, really, of the precious gift of God for the strict cloistered life,” he said. “I think the sisters have to resist,” he added, saying that because “it is against the entire tradition of the Church” and a “destruction of the cloistered life,” the sisters “cannot obey, even it comes from Rome.”

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