The future priests of the Var no longer know which saint to devote themselves to… In Brignoles, a traditional community has been forced to close its doors.
All ordinations are therefore suspended until further notice.
Suffice to say that this week's return to the parish at the Domaine de La Castille, opened in 1983 and where traditionalist students would be welcome, is more than disrupted.
All these “suspended seminarians” are getting impatient and praying that the situation will be resolved.
They have received the support of more than 7,000 faithful in the region who do not understand that the Vatican “is blocking the ordination of priests when everyone knows that there is a vocations crisis.
There, they are volunteers and we put a spoke in their wheels,” Daniel fulminates, at the end of the mass.
A joint letter, written by a Catholic collective, was sent to Pope Francis asking him to intervene.
The Bishop of Toulon, Dominique Rey, tries to put things into perspective: "We welcome this request with both pain and confidence, aware of the test that it represents above all for those who were preparing to receive ordination. .
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For the moment, nothing is moving and the Catholic hierarchy is looking into the “case of the Var church.
The bishop's supporters are mobilizing.
They praise his “twenty-two years of action spent at the head of the diocese.
What we do know is all the immense harm that these bans will do to the Church of France.
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The Holy See has not yet responded.
