Maximilien Bernard reports in the French blog Perepiscopus that the diocese of Besançon has announced the shuttered seminary of Notre-Dame de Consolation is in receivership and is up for rent. Two parties have made bids for the lease on the premises. One is the Institut du Bon Pasteur, which currently houses some forty seminarians in cramped quarters at Courtalain in the diocese of Chartres. The other is a Swiss association which advocates for reconciliation between Muslims and Jews.
Bishop André Lacrampe took the occasion of Holy Thursday to make known that the IBP would not be a desirable tenant for the former seminary. It should come as no surprise that in 2006, Mgr. Lacrampe took an official position against the creation of the IBP as well as the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.
Bishop André Lacrampe took the occasion of Holy Thursday to make known that the IBP would not be a desirable tenant for the former seminary. It should come as no surprise that in 2006, Mgr. Lacrampe took an official position against the creation of the IBP as well as the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.
