Founder Leaves His Charismatic Community
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The community has 30 members in 3 houses. Father Buttet has been released from his vows to the community. He will remain a priest of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France.
The community remains "grateful for all it has received from its founder", such as the "charism of adoration and hospitality" [but is happy that he is gone]. Father Buttet has been living outside the community since May 2020, after 12 years of leadership.
The community called for a visitation in the winter of 2021, which described Buttet as exercising an "omnipotent authority" over infantilised members. Buttet didn't accept the report and appealed against the sanctions imposed on him. The charges against him are rather vague.
A majority of the members did not want the founder to return. His definitive departure "clarifies the situation", said Claire Lasser from the house in Château Rima, France.
Buttet has been living in a hermitage since 2022 and has not presided at a public Eucharist since then.
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