BERGOGLIO THE WOLF ENTERS THE CARMELITE FOLD, FIRES CHAPLAINS

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The wolf in sheep's clothing has struck again, entering the fold of two cloistered Carmelite monasteries and forcing open their gates to let the world enter at will.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has fired the chaplains of the monasteries of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Fairfield Pennsylvania and Valparaiso Nebraska, and given the nuns one year to comply with new regulations removing their autonomy and damaging their contemplative way of life.

The Prefect of the CDF is the Jesuit Cardinal Luis Ladaria, appointed by Bergoglio after his shock firing of the conservative Cardinal Gerhard Muller. One year later, in 2018, the Vatican refused to hand Ladaria over to the criminal court for implication in charges of covering up a predator priest.

How dare Bergoglio interfere with the Carmelite constitutions devised by that great saint and Doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila? He dares because he is determined to choke the life out of the very heart of the Church, the traditional, contemplative orders which sustain the Church and revitalise her.

And here's the thing: the traditional orders are too successful. They must be stopped. Cancelled.

How can any true bishop, priest or faithful lay person remain silent in the face of such injustice? Did the young Daniel keep his mouth shut when Susanna was wrongly accused? Should this blog not continue to cry out against the demolition of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church by its supposed chief shepherd, "Pope Francis"?

"And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman" (Ez 33:6).

Even that most gentle of saints, Francis de Sales has said, "The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else."

Franciscan friar Father Maximilian Mary Dean has served the sisters in Fairfield for five years. In an exclusive interview with Lifesite's Jim Hale he says his firing comes as no surprise after last fall's Apostolic Visitation. https://youtu.be/RHQdH6CMzto 

His confrere at Valparaiso, Nebraska, is a Monsignor, a distinguished canonist and the Vicar General of the Diocese. He's been chaplain to the nuns for 30 years. He's fired.He has to leave his residence at the monastery.

 

Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Valparaiso Nebraska

Fr Maxilmilian Mary describes the CDF's official response to their visitation as "totally unjust". The nuns have been given one year to sign up to one of the CDF's "federations", compromising their autonomy. They were told that by no means would they receive a dispensation.

They have been told that if they want to follow Doctor of the Church St Teresa of Avila's constitutions then are not true children of the Church, because they would not be obeying the Congregation. They must belong to a "federation" and make compromises in regard to their formation as daughters of Carmel.

"It is a very harsh response to these brides of Christ who left everything to love Jesus and pray for the Church and for all of us," says Fr Maximilian Mary.

Jim Hale asks why would the Vatican wish to close a cloistered Carmelite monastery of traditional sisters where the vocations are booming? They have a waiting list of young ladies wanting to enter. "Everyone who goes to Fairfield Pennsylvania and visits this successful glorious monastery, which is such a blessing, would ask why are they being targeted?"

Father Maximilian Mary explains that the agenda is to modernise the Church."Times have changed so the Church has to change, religious observances have to change. You can't observe what Teresa of Avila did in the 16th century, you have to get with the times.

"The reason the monastery is so successful is because it is the 16th century! In Pennsylvania! What (the nuns) are living is timeless. You don't have to "adapt".At Valparaiso they have 40 nuns. At Fairfield we have 24. At Fairfield we get 100 vocational enquiries a year.

(The CDF) have changed the meaning of new wine in new wineskins to mean we have to change the Gospel and change religious life to suit the times. Are we going to follow the spirit of the times? Of the world? Or of the Holy Spirit? The Holy SPirit is eternal, He is outside time and it is He Who inspired St Teresa.

"The Latin Mass is just the tip of the iceberg. They (the CDF) are after the whole iceberg. Autonomous monasteries are required to belong to federations, go to meetings. The federation has total power over the monasteries. They can move sisters from one place to another. They can close monasteries."

Fr. Maximilian Mary of Jesus Crucified making his Solemn Vows as a hermit in the hands of Bishop Ronald Gainer, Diocese of Harrisburg, on Sept. 26th, 2020.

Father Maximilian Mary Dean lives an eremitical life. He is a hermit who offers intercessory prayer for the faithful at novenamasses.org

"That's why I'm a hermit. It's to have intimacy with Christ. I carry that cross of intercessory prayer with joy, in imitation of Christ.

"Man proposes, God disposes." Fr Maximilian took his name in religion from St Maximilian Kolbe, who died in Auschwitz in place of a married man with children. He was starved and finally killed with an injection of carbolic acid.

When the Nazi officer asked who he was, Maximilian answered, "I am a Catholic priest. Priesthood means laying down your life for the family man, for your neighbour, for others. This is what it means to be a Franciscan, Catholic priest and a true child of the Immaculata.

"I am a Catholic priest."