"We no longer recognize the authority of the current Bishop of Fort Worth [Michael Fors Olson]. No one who abuses us has any right to our cooperation or obedience." - Statement by the Reverend Mother Prioress and Chapter, 18 August 2023
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Friends, our community will be in retreat from Sunday, August 20 to Sunday, August 27, 2023. Please know that we are keeping you in our prayers and are grateful for your kind support! Statement …
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Archbishop LeFebvre knew this a long time ago.
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Many communities will have to do this.
"How are we to act in the face of this general subversion, this betrayal of ecclesiastical Authority? Obedience to them would imply disobeying Our Lord; disobeying exposes these communities to open persecution and unprecedented abuses of power.
This is why, in a state of evident necessity, it is necessary and indeed a duty of the Communities who wish to remain faithful to Christ and the perennial …More
"How are we to act in the face of this general subversion, this betrayal of ecclesiastical Authority? Obedience to them would imply disobeying Our Lord; disobeying exposes these communities to open persecution and unprecedented abuses of power.
This is why, in a state of evident necessity, it is necessary and indeed a duty of the Communities who wish to remain faithful to Christ and the perennial Tradition of the Church to make themselves canonically independent of those in the Church who act against the Church, of those who in the name of God act against God. This resistance is limited in time: it will consider its task fulfilled when this general phase of subversion of the Hierarchy will have ended.
It is not a matter of rebelling against the authority of the Shepherds, but rather of recognizing how many among them are actually wolves in sheep’s or mercenary’s clothing, who care nothing for the sheep (Jn 10:13), and who are the first to disobey Our Lord. For it is necessary to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29)."
Source: ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ in support of the Declaration of the Discalced Caremlite Nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity of Arlington, Texas
This is why, in a state of evident necessity, it is necessary and indeed a duty of the Communities who wish to remain faithful to Christ and the perennial Tradition of the Church to make themselves canonically independent of those in the Church who act against the Church, of those who in the name of God act against God. This resistance is limited in time: it will consider its task fulfilled when this general phase of subversion of the Hierarchy will have ended.
It is not a matter of rebelling against the authority of the Shepherds, but rather of recognizing how many among them are actually wolves in sheep’s or mercenary’s clothing, who care nothing for the sheep (Jn 10:13), and who are the first to disobey Our Lord. For it is necessary to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29)."
Source: ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ in support of the Declaration of the Discalced Caremlite Nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity of Arlington, Texas