Sarah’s Former Congregation: The Visitation Is "Not" a Visitation

Archbishop Arthur Roche, the secretary and second man in the Congregation for Liturgy, confirmed reports that Francis ordered a visitation on Cardinal Sarah's former Congregation.

In an attempt to create confusion, Roche told TheTablet.co.uk (March 15) that this is “not a canonical” but a “consultive” visitation. Nobody knows what a "consultive visitation" is.

Roche explained it like this, “It is more in the nature of the consultations a diocesan bishop would have with his Vicar General and others when he is appointing a new Parish Priest.” But why is this called a "visitation"?

The news of the visitation followed after Francis’ unjust bann on all private Masses in St Peter’s, another step in order to turn the basilica into a museum.

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