Vatican Dismisses Appeal by Transalpine Redemptorists
The order celebrates Mass in the Roman rite. They had appealed against directives and decrees issued by Bishop Michael Gielen in July 2024.
What happened in 2024?
In July 2023, 17 people accused the order of spiritual and psychological abuse and of performing exorcisms without permission from the Christchurch diocese. The Order denied the allegations.
In July 2024, following an apostolic visitation and a list of recommendations from the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious, Bishop Gielen published a series of harsh measures. He suspended the priests and ordered all members of the order to leave the diocese.
In September 2024, the diocese stressed that public Masses conducted by these priests are deemed illicit.
In a statement released in November 2024, the community replied that the measures were unjust and that they intended to remain in Christchurch while the case proceeded.
Now that the appeal has been dismissed, the diocese says that the original measures stand in full.
The order came to Christchurch in 2007.
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