Radical Vatican About to Take Vengeance on Father Stefano Manelli

The Vatican is taking revenge on an 85 year old man! For those who are not familiar with Fr Manelli, he is one the founders of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, which was one of the most vibrant, thriving Orders in the Church. When the Order decided, in absolute conformity to the letter of the law as laid down in Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, to celebrate the 'Extraordinary Form' (the Traditional Latin Mass) exclusively, there was a tiny minority (21 out of 350) of friars who complained to the Vatican.

Francis' response, out of his hatred of Catholicism and Tradition, removed Fr Manelli as Superior and placed the Order under a Commission. Now it seems the real truth has come out. Under the Constitutions of the Order, their property is held by laymen, and the Vatican needs the money to  help pay for a financial scandal in the Order of Friars Minor, another Franciscan Order, a scandal in which one of Francis' toadies was implicated. So, Francis is pushing to have the Vow of Poverty removed from the Constitutions, and because he hates anything that's 'too Catholic' to remove the specific Consecration to the Immaculate Virgin that members of the Order make.

How long, O Lord, how long?

From Gloria.tv

Sanctions against Father Stefano Manelli, 85, the founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, are imminent, writes Marco Tosatti (July 21). Manelli’s order languishes under a Vatican commissioner since July 2013.

The reasons for this crack down, never explained by the Vatican, are evident: for the present Vatican nomenclature, the Friars are “too Catholic”.

According to Tosatti, a document containing sanctions against Manelli, authored by the Congregation for the Religious, is currently on Francis' table.

After the sanctions are imposed, the Vatican will push for a General Chapter. The plan is to change the Friars' constitutions and to abolish the vow of consecration to the Immaculate and the vow of poverty. The latter has created a situation in which all material goods of the friars belong to lay-people. The Vatican has tried in vain to get hold of this patrimony but lost all juridical battles in Italian courts.

Therefore, the Vatican tried to use Father Manelli in order to put pressure on the assets' owners. After this failed, it seems, Francis wants to punish Manelli which reveals Francis’ strange sense of justice.

One of the leading Vatican bureaucrats who fights against the Friars is Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo OFM, the secretary of the Congregation for the Religious, a Francis intimate, who was one of the main protagonists of the huge financial scandal hitting the Franciscans (OFM) in December 2014. The scandal was quickly hushed up.

Because Carballo is a radical-liberal, nobody touched him, on the contrary, Francis promoted him to become an archbishop.