Hatred for the Mass: Details on Francis’ Attack on France’s Best Diocese
• Rey – a member of the charismatic Emmanuel Community - has transformed his diocese into a laboratory of evangelisation by welcoming priests from all over the world, as well as some thirty French and foreign communities without fearing diversity and Roman Rite Communities.
• Rey’s seminary (fifty seminarians) is the biggest diocesan seminary in France.
• Priestly vocations have been at the centre of Rey’s action.
• Tiny Toulon has 250 active priests (Paris: 500): 75% are under 64 years old, 30% under 44.
• A source close to Rey called the Roman decision “brutal” stressing that the ordinandi “do not pose any difficulty.”
• A 2021 visitation by Marseilles’ Neo-Cardinal Aveline was motivated by the 2020 reorganisation of the seminary. The then-director was unhappy about his replacement and accused Rey in Rome of a “traditionalist drift.” Rome was only too happy to oblige.
• Another issue is the reception of seminarians from outside the diocese which causes the envy of other French bishops and is an open accusation of those [anti-Catholic] bishops whose seminarians run away from them.
• A well-placed source explains Francis’ brutal approach with "Bishop Rey's openness to the traditionalist option which has now been targeted and fought for a year throughout the Church of France on the orders of Rome and the Pope."
The end of this is predictable: the removal of Bishop Rey and bringing the diocese into line.
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