Vatican Cracks Down on Old Rite Carmelites And Their Chaplains
The Vatican removed Father Maximilian Dean, a former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate, as chaplain of the Old Rite Carmelites of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, he told LifeSiteNews.com (April 11).
Monsignore Timothy Thorburn, the chaplain for 30 years in their mother community, the Carmelites in Valparaiso, Nebraska, was also eliminated.
The dismissals come after a September Visitation whose report - according to Dean - is “totally unjust and full of an agenda.” The nuns were told that they will never receive a dispensation from having to incorporate into some federation (Cor Orans).
If they want to follow St. Teresa of Ávila and her constitutions "they are basically not true children of the [Novus Ordo] Church,” the Vatican told them.
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Monsignore Timothy Thorburn, the chaplain for 30 years in their mother community, the Carmelites in Valparaiso, Nebraska, was also eliminated.
The dismissals come after a September Visitation whose report - according to Dean - is “totally unjust and full of an agenda.” The nuns were told that they will never receive a dispensation from having to incorporate into some federation (Cor Orans).
If they want to follow St. Teresa of Ávila and her constitutions "they are basically not true children of the [Novus Ordo] Church,” the Vatican told them.
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