"Synodality": Francis REMOVES Bishop As If He Were an Altar Boy
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In an August 17 statement, Fernández had defended the human right to object to unsafe Covid injections. Days later, he refused to sign a statement of the other six Puerto Rican Covid bishops who claimed that to be injected is "a duty."
After complaints from the Covid bishops, the Nuncio requested Fernández to resign as if the bishop were only administrators and not fathers of their diocese. Fernández refused on grounds of conscience. So, he was called to the Vatican, but - irony of fate - didn't want to travel during the Covid-19 panic.
Aciprensa.com also reports that Fernández refused to transfer his seminarians to the [Modernist] Interdiocesan Puerto Rico Seminary, approved by the Vatican in March 2020.
Fernández is the second bishop in this pontificate to be removed without first offering his resignation. The first was Rogelio Livieres (+2015), Paraguay.
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