Rogue Catholic bishops plan to grow schismatic challenge to Rome

[Zaac]

Rogue Catholic bishops plan to grow schismatic challenge to Rome

NOVA FRIBURGO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two renegade Catholic bishops plan to consecrate a new generation of bishops to spread their ultra-traditionalist movement called "The Resistance" in defiance of the Vatican, one of them said at a remote monastery in Brazil.

French Bishop Jean-Michel Faure, himself consecrated only two weeks ago by the Holocaust-denying British Bishop Richard Williamson, said the new group rejected Pope Francis and what it called his "new religion" and would not engage in a dialogue with Rome until the Vatican turned back the clock.

Williamson and Faure, who were both excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when the former made the latter a bishop without Vatican approval, are ex-members of a larger dissenting group that has been a thorn in Rome's side for years.

Their splinter movement is tiny - Faure did not give an estimate of followers - but the fact they plan to consecrate bishops is important because it means their schism can continue as a rebel form of Catholicism.

"We follow the popes of the past, not the current one," Faure, 73, told reporters on Saturday at Santa Cruz Monastery in Nova Friburgo, in the mountain jungle 140 km (87 miles) inland from Rio de Janeiro.

"It is likely that in maybe one or two years we will have more consecrations," he said, adding there were already two candidates to be promoted to bishop's rank.

The monastery had said Williamson would ordain a priest there at the weekend but he was not seen by reporters, and clergy said it was impossible to talk to him. Faure ordained the priest himself.

Asked what the new group called itself, Faure said: "I think we can call ourselves Roman Catholic first, secondly St Pius X, and now ... the Resistance."

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Interesting.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I think they'll be forced eventually to confront the errors of papal infallibility and apostolic succession.

 

[preachinjesus]

Their problem isn't the current Pope, it's Vatican II. Nothing will come of this.

 

[rsr]

Exactly right. There are a number of dissident Roman Catholic groups and they don't amount to much, whether they are technically in communion with Rome or not.

A more serious challenge is coming from the German bishops, who are considering allowing some divorced-and-remarried Catholics to take communion and to allow the church to employ remarried divorcees and men and women living in same-sex relationships. (A big thing, given that the Roman church is the second-largest employer in Germany.)

The Vatican had to send out its enforcer (the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) to tell the German bishops that they don't have the authority to make such changes. As the National Catholic Reporter put it, the prefect said "that doctrinal, or even disciplinary, decisions regarding marriage and family are not up for determination by national bishops’ conferences."