Father Nicolas Buttet, 61, a former Swiss politician, was put under sanctions after a 2022 visitation of Eucharistein Fraternity which he founded in 1996, writes LeMatin.ch (January 23).
• Buttet is forbidden to preside the Eucharist in public, to hear confessions, and to contact his fraternity.
• Eucharistein which is supervised by Toulon Bishop Dominique Rey, has houses in Épinassey, Switzerland, and Château-Rima and Saint-Jeoire in France.
• The visitation accuses Eucharistein of "a pyramidal, abusive, infantilising system which has cancelled out the various dimensions of people's being, in particular their psychology" - which sounds like what Francis does in the Vatican.
• There are also complaints of "too much community life", a "lack of space for intimacy" and "inadequate human and spiritual formation" [as if that wasn't the rule in the Council Church].
• The accusation of an "omnipotent authority" which "robs members of their rightful autonomy as well as "fear of superiors" and …More