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Strasbourg: Synodality-Francis Makes Another Attempt to Fire Archbishop

Strasbourg Archbishop Luc Ravel, 65, will resign in the coming days, writes La-Croix.com (April 19).

He is accused of an "authoritarian government" - which cannot be a crime, since Francis does the same. After a June 2022 visitation, Cardinal Ouellet asked Ravel in October to go.

Ravel promised to do so, but changed his mind. He was then summoned by Cardinal Parolin but never went, citing health reasons.

In Strasbourg and Metz, two dioceses that used to belong to Germany, the French president appoints and dismisses the bishop. So, the Vatican has come up with a trick. They plan to transfer Ravel to a titular diocese, which doesn't require Macron's approval.

La-Croix, a Bergoglio propaganda outlet, claims that Ravel is practising a "policy of scorched earth" - while he is simply following the ideology of Vatican II and Francis, whose gods are "collegiality" and "synodality." Francis cannot dismiss a bishop as if he were his altar boy if he does not want to lose the last vestige of his credibility.

Picture: Luc Ravel © Peter Potrowl, wikipedia, CC BY-SA, #newsDqgvwghrvl

SonoftheChurch
My, my, my…..a French Concordat with the Holy See that has the likes of Emannuel Macron appointing and removing Bishops….no different (or possibly even worse) than the current hellish mess in China, with hordes of heathens, infidels, apostates and heretics ruling over the national affairs of Holy Mother Church. A blasphemous affront to the Lord of Glory. This, then, is the result of many centuries …More
My, my, my…..a French Concordat with the Holy See that has the likes of Emannuel Macron appointing and removing Bishops….no different (or possibly even worse) than the current hellish mess in China, with hordes of heathens, infidels, apostates and heretics ruling over the national affairs of Holy Mother Church. A blasphemous affront to the Lord of Glory. This, then, is the result of many centuries of horrible statecraft and diplomacy by the Vatican, conducted under the questionable guise of “protecting the Faithful” and “keeping the Church alive” in nations where the cause of Christ is besieged and under all-out assault from Satan and his human imps. God help us, when will it be understood that it is far, far better to have no agreement with the devil at all, than to have one formed with, and comprised of, his own diabolical terms. You cannot treat honorably and honestly with the Father of Lies. Such a lesson, it seems, the Vatican has yet to learn. All things being equal however, I suppose we should at least be thankful that governments and heads of state (like the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) no longer hold the privilege of outright vetoing Candidates for the Throne of Saint Peter during Papal Conclaves. At least we have that. May God, in His infinite mercies, save the Church, and by His all-powerful Hand and the mighty Hosts of Heaven, protect her from the ravishment of evil men.
John A Cassani
Good point. I think we can also be thankful that the last time the emperor’s veto was used prevented Mariano Rampolla from becoming Pope, and led to St. Pius X. But, it was good he did away with it.