Well, that's one way to steal their property! Francis's Vatican showing 'mercy'.
From Gloria.tv
Eight Augustinian Fathers of the former Vicariate of Castile in Brazil
have been "defrocked" by the Vatican, Folha de S. Paulo (September 14)
reported.
Their crime: They refused to hand over their schools to
the Augustinian Province of Brazil. The Province was only created in
2013 by a merger of three groups: the Augustinian Vicariate of Castile
(Spain), the Augustinian Delegation of Malta, and the Filipino
Augustinians of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Brazil.
From the
very beginning, the Vicariate of Castile disagreed with how the merger
was handled and refused to surrender their three schools in São Paulo
and Goiânia with 9,300 students and other 19 institutions to the new
Province.
Instead they changed the bylaws of the "Augustinian
Society of Education and Assistance" which controls the schools
withdrawing it successfully from any ecclesiastical influence.
The
Province saw this as a declaration of war and threatened the priests
with expulsion from the Order which happened in 2015. In August 2018
they were threatened with laicization and now "defrocked".
Spanish-born
Father José Florencio Blanco Melon, 62, (37 years of priesthood) called
the unappealable decision a surprise, “We thought there would be a
dialogue process but this did not happen.”
Among the "defrocked"
priests is 92-years-old Spanish-born Father César Rafael Rodríguez
Martinez, who has lived 66 years as a priest, and Father Eduardo
Flauzino Mendes, 47, the administrator of the three schools.
The
known São Paulo judge José Roberto Nalini, 73, called the whole matter
"a question of economic greed." Supporters of the priests collected
23,000 signatures in support of the religious.
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