Church of Love: Why The Fraternity Is Expelled From Dijon

Dijon Archbishop Roland Minnerath, France, has stated that he expels the Fraternity of St Peter from his Archdiocese because their priests don’t co-preside at the Novus Ordo Chrism Eucharist during Holy Week.

He said this to local faithful, and his press office confirmed it to CatholicNewsAgency.com. Co-presiding in the Novus Ordo Church is an option, never an obligation according to the regulations of Vatican II and Canon 902.

Minnerath faced a big outcry against his decision and is now shamelessly using the reaction he provoked to play victim by saying that the reaction was “very revealing of the spirit of a part of the people who refer to the Fraternity.”

An online petition signed by 2.500 persons was rejected by Minnerath with the non pertinent argument that a “majority of the signatures come from outside the diocese.”

Since there is no contract - not even a contact - between the Fraternity and Minnerath, the latter will get away with his action - at least in this world. Minnerath is 74. Life expectance for males in France is 80,3 years.

The Fraternity of St Peter has brought the case to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but seeking justice in Rome is the equivalent of trying to find Catholic bishops in France.

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