Vatican Uses Rigidity to Discipline Rebellious Carmelites

The fight between the Carmelite nuns of Salta and the local archbishop is about a "Virgen del Cerro," writes LaNacion.com.ar (April 27).

This is connected to María Livia Galliano, an alleged seer and initiator of the foundation “I am the Immaculate Mother of the Divine Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and I am the Most Sacred Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.” The Carmelites are members of the foundation.

On Saturdays at noon, a rosary is recited at the hermitage of the “Virgen del Cerro,” built on land given by a Buenos Aires family and entrusted to the Carmelites who allow the alleged seer to live in the monastery and even allocating spaces for pilgrims.

Interestingly, Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo of the Congregation for Religious told the Carmelites in a March 30 letter that the Carmelites are obliged to “strictly observe” their enclosure. Rodríguez strongly insists on the rules while, usually, the Vatican denigrates this as an attitude of “rigidity.”

Picture: Virgen del cerro en Salta © Claudio Nestor Caruso, CC BY, #newsPbjeefllpt