IVE Sisters: Vatican's "Repressive Machinery" Has Done It Again
For him, the recent decree against the Servants of the Lord and of Our Lady of Matara is "a merciless blow" because it prohibits the reception of new vocations for three (!) years.
"Is this how Rome wants to take care of the consecrated life?" - Gurpegui asks: "It is impossible not to read this with indignation".
He recalls that the Servant Sisters, who take the Gospel to the ends of the earth, are excluded, while Miriades of religious groups suffer without vocations "because they have emptied their charism to the point of irrelevance" [and the Vatican couldn't care less].
For Gurpegui, this is "a mockery". The Vatican's excuse for cracking down on the sisters is an alleged "lack of formation" and "inexperienced leadership".
"If the problem were really one of formation, wouldn't it make more sense to send more resources to improve the processes, but without stopping the missionary work?"
"There is a clear pattern here: the only answer is to punish," Gurpegui explains: "They want to discipline the few who still believe in sacrifice, poverty and true obedience".
For him, it is about harming a community that is growing and bringing hope where no one else dares to go. What the Vatican is doing "is not helping, it is trying to dismantle".
"Where are the interventions against those who preach against the faith from their teaching chairs and pulpits? Where is the prohibition to accept more postulants in those religious communities where formation is pure ideology and activism [and decadence]?"
"This cries out to heaven. Three years is an eternity for a religious institute. With this decision, many young women will lose the opportunity to consecrate their lives".
"Let no one be deceived: this decree does not seek to protect. It is a purge masquerading as a correction, another blow in the crusade against all that still shines with the light of the authentic Gospel".
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