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END OF FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE IMACULATE?


Alberto Guimaraes

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truthfinder

I'm not wanting a detailed explanation of their internal affairs; that's not my business. Having been in religious life myself for several years, I'm simply interested to know what is going on, hopefully from a non-biased source, since I have no real idea. New communities particularly are susceptible to a LOT of problems that are not known--and don't need to be known--to the outside world. My first inclination--while knowing hardly anything about it--is that someone was assigned to help iron out these kinks in formation, since the community has seemingly gotten so large, before it turns into a problem that can't be fixed. I'm just curious as to why there's such a hullabaloo. Because people think it's all about the Latin Mass? That certain leaders in the Church are trying to clamp down on traditional-leaning communities because of their affinity for tradition? That's so superficial, and IMO, it's probably not anything to do with that, per se.

​From what I've read (granted from rather Rorate-like sources), there were other concerns: things like governance of property, formation of seminarians.  But the Latin-Mass is certainly part of it.  To basically ban the the EF everywhere, to instantly shut the seminary (which was teaching the EF), is more than just other concerns. 

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veritasluxmea

I'm not wanting a detailed explanation of their internal affairs; that's not my business. Having been in religious life myself for several years, I'm simply interested to know what is going on, hopefully from a non-biased source, since I have no real idea. New communities particularly are susceptible to a LOT of problems that are not known--and don't need to be known--to the outside world. My first inclination--while knowing hardly anything about it--is that someone was assigned to help iron out these kinks in formation, since the community has seemingly gotten so large, before it turns into a problem that can't be fixed. I'm just curious as to why there's such a hullabaloo. Because people think it's all about the Latin Mass? That certain leaders in the Church are trying to clamp down on traditional-leaning communities because of their affinity for tradition? That's so superficial, and IMO, it's probably not anything to do with that, per se.

​That makes sense; I don't mean to imply that you want a detailed explanation of their internal affairs, but that because it's so complicated and internal it's be hard to get even a simple explanation without private details. I think your first instinct is correct, a lot of the hullabaloo seems to be people's impressions and speculations. Granted they're not completely unfounded- it was badly carried out and perhaps that's due to prejudice- but at the end of the day, I can't find anything concrete to explain it one way or another. So in regards to the situation I can only rely on my personal experiences, which line up with what truthfinder posted. 

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They were a Roman Catholic order restoring the Traditional Latin Mass back to ordinary use. To the higher ups this anti-VII behavior and is worse than the local habitless nun preaching heresy and progressive ideology. They were chosen as a signal to other orders that this is unacceptable. It's been 50 years since the council, the Church is in shambles, but we must praise V2 and there is no going back, as our holy father Pope Francis recently said. 

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Just ask your self, of all the orders, were they the ones in most need of Vatican intervention?

Hmmm

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NadaTeTurbe

It's not because an order preaches the Truth, that internally, everything's perfect. Satan knew the Bible by heart. (I am not comparing them to Satan, of course. They are not of my spirituality - I am not Franciscan, I love the Novus Ordo, and I am very against the dogma of Mary Co-redemptrix, and the only time I meet them, they were joyful preacher, very dedicated to the poor. They also believed in Medjugorge, wich is a big NO.) 


It's been 50 years since the council, the Church is in shambles, but we must praise V2 and there is no going back, as our holy father Pope Francis recently said. 

Thanks to God, there is no going back. Vatican II is a treasure for the Church. I hope you are happy in the SSPX. 

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I'm not in the SSPX, I'm just a Roman Catholic. I attend a parish that celebrates a Romanized Novus Ordo and has a Latin Mass.

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Just ask your self, of all the orders, were they the ones in most need of Vatican intervention?

Hmmm

Actually, I know a handful of Orders currently going through an "intervention" of sorts. This Order's is just particularly public, for some reason. 

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Just ask your self, of all the orders, were they the ones in most need of Vatican intervention?

Hmmm

There are tons of orders that the vatican investigats.  But really, this one gets all the news beucase people somehow see them the maryter.

 

I know I'm not Catholic so I sholdn't have a voice but the whole contentionusness between the Pre VatII crowd and the post are so insane that I can't really stand it.  I think that the current Pope is a really nice guy who just stated facts.  Vatican 2 is the way of law.  We can appreciate older forms but they are not the law.

 

Oh and to the other poster.  I think I was thinking of the CFR's.  I know I did stuff with the FFI's tho.  At any rate this whole Catholic angst betwen the old mass and the new mass is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to join the church.  I don't get why some people can't understand that the church chose the move and that it's not all some big nightmare mistake and that with the right pope all of the sudden old mass will be the norm and new mass will never be said again.  I sometimes feel like that's the hope of old mass people and it makes me feel this awful pit in my stomach.

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Actually, I know a handful of Orders currently going through an "intervention" of sorts. This Order's is just particularly public, for some reason.

There are tons of orders that the vatican investigats.  But really, this one gets all the news beucase people somehow see them the maryter..

​Which other orders are going through interventions the way the Friars of the Immaculate have been?

Interested in knowing.

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KnightofChrist

Perhaps the LCWR? But to my memory I don't recall their leadership being completely replaced, any of their convents closed, nor their preferred form of the Mass being forbidden to them etc...

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NadaTeTurbe

Regnum Cristi, the legionnaries of Christ ? 

And the LCWR is not a religious community, it's a place of meeting for the leaders of religious communities, not even to the sisters but for the superiors. 

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KnightofChrist

And the LCWR is not a religious community, it's a place of meeting for the leaders of religious communities, not even to the sisters but for the superiors. 

​True, but I don't believe that explains the unequal treatment of the two groups. Also the over site of the LCWR has ended.

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Nihil Obstat

Perhaps the LCWR? But to my memory I don't recall their leadership being completely replaced, any of their convents closed, nor their preferred form of the Mass being forbidden to them etc...

And apparently their scrutiny has ended. Time will tell if they truly intend to conform themselves to the true faith. 

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Nihil Obstat

So in terms of high level scrutiny we have groups founded by a notorious criminal pervert, a group of avowed modernists, and a group who prefer the traditional Mass of the Catholic Church. 

One of these things is not like the other...

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Hmm...

So no order that has had its superiors replaced and seminaries closed?

Apparently the hierarchs are more concerned with the Traditional Latin Mass than heresy.

 

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