Enough Is Enough – Niece Fights for Late Father Marie-Dominique Philippe. 66-year-old Marie Philippe, a mother of seven children, is the niece of Dominican Father Marie-Dominique Philippe. Father …More
Enough Is Enough – Niece Fights for Late Father Marie-Dominique Philippe.
66-year-old Marie Philippe, a mother of seven children, is the niece of Dominican Father Marie-Dominique Philippe. Father Philippe is the founder of the Community of Saint John. He died in 2006. Seven years later, he was proclaimed by his own order as guilty of unspecified acts – quote – “contrary to chastity, without sexual union” against adult women. Now Philipp’s niece Marie has published a webpage defending her uncle calling the accusations unsubstantiated and unjust.
Mrs Philippe does not deny her uncle’s frequent gestures of affection towards the brothers and the nuns of his community, mainly during spiritual directions or confessions. But, she insists, that they were marked by a – quote – “pure and unequivocal intention.” Marie points out that Philippe’s accusers have serious psychological problems and that their witness was never evaluated by a psychologist.
Only one accuser against Father Philippe is …More
66-year-old Marie Philippe, a mother of seven children, is the niece of Dominican Father Marie-Dominique Philippe. Father Philippe is the founder of the Community of Saint John. He died in 2006. Seven years later, he was proclaimed by his own order as guilty of unspecified acts – quote – “contrary to chastity, without sexual union” against adult women. Now Philipp’s niece Marie has published a webpage defending her uncle calling the accusations unsubstantiated and unjust.
Mrs Philippe does not deny her uncle’s frequent gestures of affection towards the brothers and the nuns of his community, mainly during spiritual directions or confessions. But, she insists, that they were marked by a – quote – “pure and unequivocal intention.” Marie points out that Philippe’s accusers have serious psychological problems and that their witness was never evaluated by a psychologist.
Only one accuser against Father Philippe is …More
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I hardly ever believed these accusations when they first came out and this seems to be the case with many of those who knew him personnaly (students etc).
"The true objective is to undermine a body of teachings, to destroy a community." The best disciple of Father Marie-Do, long-time master of studies at St Jodard, was also accused without proof and without having ever been heard by the Congregation …More
I hardly ever believed these accusations when they first came out and this seems to be the case with many of those who knew him personnaly (students etc).
"The true objective is to undermine a body of teachings, to destroy a community." The best disciple of Father Marie-Do, long-time master of studies at St Jodard, was also accused without proof and without having ever been heard by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that assigned him in residence in an abbey of canons of St Augustine in Switzerland, with prohibition to teach and to publish. This is unheard of. It is worse than at the time of the Inquisition where, at least, we listened to what people had to say in a legal framework! "
"The true objective is to undermine a body of teachings, to destroy a community." The best disciple of Father Marie-Do, long-time master of studies at St Jodard, was also accused without proof and without having ever been heard by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that assigned him in residence in an abbey of canons of St Augustine in Switzerland, with prohibition to teach and to publish. This is unheard of. It is worse than at the time of the Inquisition where, at least, we listened to what people had to say in a legal framework! "