The reaction of some bishops in France to the consequences of the pontifical act which established the tiny Institute of the Good Shepherd is every time more puzzling. Now, the Bishop of Chartres complains that he was never told, not even out of mere "politeness", of the establishment of the seminary of this Society of Pontifical Right in Courtalain, within his diocese.
Well, everyone remembers when the probable rector of this new seminary, Father Aulagnier, visited Bishop Pansard of Chartres with Bishop Rifan, Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney (Campos, Brazil) earlier this year, for apparently no clear reason... Perhaps Pansard was the only ecclesiastical authority in Chartres who did not know that the Seminary would be at Courtalain...
Pansard also uses his communiqué to profess his unending support for the last Council, as if that were in question at all! Yes, Vatican II is the unswerving "compass" ("the compass by which I live") of the Lord Bishop of Chartres -- now, what has this got to do with the seminary of the new Society of Pontifical Right at Courtalain, regarding which Rome was always aware (together with the work of members of the new Society in the Centre Saint-Paul, in Paris)?
Dear Bishops of France, please, calm down! Your desperation makes it seem as if you have got something to hide! It is just a tiny society of Traditional Catholic priests... or are you expecting something else?...
Well, everyone remembers when the probable rector of this new seminary, Father Aulagnier, visited Bishop Pansard of Chartres with Bishop Rifan, Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney (Campos, Brazil) earlier this year, for apparently no clear reason... Perhaps Pansard was the only ecclesiastical authority in Chartres who did not know that the Seminary would be at Courtalain...
Pansard also uses his communiqué to profess his unending support for the last Council, as if that were in question at all! Yes, Vatican II is the unswerving "compass" ("the compass by which I live") of the Lord Bishop of Chartres -- now, what has this got to do with the seminary of the new Society of Pontifical Right at Courtalain, regarding which Rome was always aware (together with the work of members of the new Society in the Centre Saint-Paul, in Paris)?Dear Bishops of France, please, calm down! Your desperation makes it seem as if you have got something to hide! It is just a tiny society of Traditional Catholic priests... or are you expecting something else?...
