'Apostolic Assistants' for Flourishing Religious Community Saint-Martin
The flourishing Novus Ordo community was founded in 1976 by Abbé Jean-François Guérin (1929-2005). It celebrates a Novus Ordo variant close to the Novus Ordo Missal and uses Latin. Its priests wear cassocks.
In 2024, most of the priest ordained in France for the Novus Ordo belonged to St Martin. They work in 32 dioceses, mainly in France, but also in Germany, Cuba and Rome.
In 2022, Francis ordered an unjustified pastoral visit (July 2022 to January 2023). It resulted in a 1,300-page report and an additional financial report.
Now, more than a year later, two Apostolic Assistants were appointed to work with the community for the next three years. They are Father François-Marie Humann and Bishop Matthieu Dupont of Laval.
The current head ("moderator") of the Community of St. Martin, Pater Paul Préaux, will carry out the changes requested by the Vatican dicastery.
One of these is a historical review of the foundation and its founder. Several former members accuse Abbé Jean-François Guérin of having committed "abuses". Some adults reported offenses of a homosexual nature, such as forced kissing.
Father Préaux said that the founder "had a strong temperament and wanted to be respected as a founder, but he was aware of his human weaknesses and apologised for them."
And, "Given this character and knowing that some confreres had suffered from it, none of us had the desire to put him on a pedestal".
The traditional orders of the Church are full of problems, but Francis doesn't touch them because they are relativists ("liberals").
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