Beware of MIDs
All I know about Dale Melczek, the bishop of Gary who approved the move, is that he's the #2 seeded racquetball player among the US bishops.
Is racquetball kosher under Marcial Law?
First word was that their project was just a "school." Now we know it'll be a minor seminary.
Oh God, here we go....
Kudos to Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune for a balanced piece which places praise of Maciel alongside solid feed from members of ReGAIN.
But the curious thing is that the LCs are still holding on to the Stato statement from May that no canonical process was foreseen against Maciel, refuted here again by John Allen.Favreau said he left partly because he came to realize that Maciel leads an opulent life, despite the vows of poverty Legionaries are supposed to take.
"I began to see less and less of Jesus Christ and more of power plays of individuals," Favreau said.
As a seminarian, Favreau said he was not allowed much contact with his parents. Those who want to leave find it difficult, sometimes because they are convinced that if they leave they will go to hell, and sometimes because they have no money or resources, Favreau and other former Legion seminarians have said.
The Legion explicitly says here that the statement came from Sodano, but it was issued unsigned. Do they know something we don't???
Get ready for some fireworks.Dunlap [the LC spokesman] referred to a statement issued in May by the Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, reportedly a longtime friend of Maciel's, which said there was no longer an investigation and none was foreseen. The statement was picked up widely by news outlets worldwide.
However, the National Catholic Reporter published a story a few days later noting that it is the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly headed by the man who is now Pope Benedict XVI, that has authority over such cases.
John Allen, who covers the Vatican for the National Catholic Reporter, told The Tribune that his sources, whom he does not name, say the investigation remains ongoing.
"The office that handles these cases has said nothing, but I and others have reported that they're continuing their preliminary investigation," Allen said.
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 23:59
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Actually, the Legionnaires were active in the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese until just very recently, when they were kicked out for doing little more than promoting vocations to their own. That, and Notre Dame was skittish about Regnum Christi.
"Most orders have done away with high school seminaries" (R.) Most orders have done away with almost every form of formation because they have no vocations. the future of religious life is clearly going to be made up of the LC., the Fraternity of Saint Peter, Mother Angelica's sisters, and the Saint Joseph Province of OP. This is not a ideological statement, it is a mathematical understanding of the state of religious life in the Church. If this is the case, can a bishop kick these groups out of his diocese?
Once a group obtains pontifical status (under the authority of the Roman Pontiff) a group cannot be removed from a diocese they are present in. The bishop can limit the work they do among his subjects, but they remain in his territory. good enough, except that the lay members of the orders can side step the bishop, and be ministered to by an orders that has been limited in its apostolic work by the bishop because such lay folk are understood to also be integral to the order. The Regum Christi is the Legion’s lay group, the OP have the lay Dominicans, the FSSP have anyone who can claim to be attached to the old Mass. Now think of this, if the Society of St. Pius X comes back into the church, and it looks like this possibility is emminet, they will be constituted an Apostolic Administration with world wide jurisdiction, which means, that they will be a world wide diocese, made up of monasteries, large numbers of religious, over 500 priests, and they will be able to set up a high school, a convent, a seminary or whatever they like, next to ND., or St. pat's NYC or any place they see fit, and no bishop will be able to stop them from working with the lay faithful under his jurisdiction. The face of the Church is about to change, and I do not believe that most Catholics realize just how soon.
As it happens, the St. Albert the Great (Central U.S.) Dominican Province has a larger novitiate class this year than does the St. Joseph (Eastern) Province (8 vs. 6). (Of course, the Dominican Order has never been all that large in the U.S.)
Ten years ago, the Dominicans were informed that their presence was no longer required to meet the pastoral needs of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. It can and does happen.
I'm not sure ministering to lay members of an order is a significant issue. Not simply because there aren't that many lay members -- there was, I believe, one Lay Dominican in Atlanta in 1995, for example, and I doubt there's a diocese in the U.S. that would require more than two friars if all they did was serve as spiritual promoters for the T.O.P.'s -- but because no order was founded with the mission to care for the spiritual welfare of its lay members.
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