Bishop Punished for Being Successful Returns to Paris
Monsignor Rey was sacked last month by Francis, who only tolerates mediocrity around him, because Fréjus-Toulon was one of the last dioceses in France still functioning.
According to the anti-Catholic TemoignageChretien.fr (6 February), an appointment as part-time chaplain at the Sacré-Coeur basilica, one of the busiest churches in Paris, is being considered.
"My mission does not end with my resignation," said Mgr Rey at the end of his homily at a thanksgiving Mass held on 1 February at the Domaine de La Castille, the flourishing seminary of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, which is now left without seminarians after Mgr Rey's departure.
In his homily, the Bishop also said: "Sometimes the cross comes from the Church itself". He quoted Cardinal John Newman: "He who has not suffered through the Church has not suffered for the Church".
Monsignor Rey was above all a champion of vocations. During his time in Fréjus-Toulon (550,000 Catholics), he performed 164 (!) ordinations.
Anti-Catholic currents in the Church await Monsignor Rey's arrival in Paris with fear and trembling, knowing that he will attract huge crowds fed up with the boring and grey 'liberal' Church bureaucracy.
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