Father Patrick de LA ROCQUE: The storm is raging in the diocese of Toulon. On June 2 [2022], Rome informed Mgr Rey that he was forbidden to proceed with the diaconal and priestly ordinations scheduled for the end of this month, leaving ten candidates for the priesthood without any prospects. Observers saw this as a challenge to the bishop's pastoral orientation, undoubtedly deemed excessively proselytizing and too conservative in the eyes of the current pontificate.
Such a rare measure had not occurred for almost fifty years. It was on May 6, 1975, when Rome forbade Archbishop Lefebvre to proceed with priestly ordinations at Ecône; again, just a few weeks before the ceremony. But there the similarity ends, such is the world separating these two prelates.
As for Archbishop Lefebvre, he was condemned for his magnificent declaration of November 21, 1974, the acuteness of which becomes clearer every day: "We adhere with all our heart, with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, guardian of the …More