FFI and Fr. Angelo M. Geiger

JMJ

Something interesting happened to the FSSP priests who caused their chapter elections to be overturned in 2000.

Within a few years, they left.

Now we have this report from Gloria.TV that Fr. Angelo M. Geiger has left the FFI and joined a regular Franciscan order.

Oh well - some much for his excuses.

Frankly, if some members of the FFI were indeed 'Crypto-Lefebvrists', then what was Fr. Geiger, a 'Crypto-Modernist'???

Riposte Catholique has an article (robo translation below).

I believe that the events of the FFI have a special importance for the SSPX.

In 2000, the FSSP underwent their convulsion, just as relations between Rome and the SSPX were rekindled, providing the SSPX with material to question the intentions of the Roman authorities

Flash forward to 2012, the FFI (thanks to Fr. Geiger et al), are placed under investigation by Rome and their crime? Crypto-Lefebvrism.

Very telling for the SSPX!

P^3

Riposte Catholique

The saga of the Franciscan Brothers of the immaculate (FFI) seems no longer to finish, or in any case, as the "reasons" of such a case remain stubbornly obscure by even the intention of the Authority, the good sense suggests an end deadly. Do we hear well: "evil" here means by report to the foundation project approved legitimately by the supreme authority of the Church activist in agreement with all the texts still in force. In Italy, this case has become emblematic of a willingness of destruction in total disagreement with Speeches "Merciful God" whose content - not otherwise devoid of interest - faces the reality of the facts… and the wickedness of men. The vaticanistes who use it to highlight the contradictions of the current pontificate does not count the most.

Destruction without reason

the latest events in date can only confirm such an analysis. In the first place the overall situation of the Franciscans of the Immaculate has frightening: Fifteen convents and three missions have been closed, all the novitiates recorded a decline of affluence significant - the one based in Italy is even empty of novices. The current authorities do not communicate in nothing on the staff while the you could count approximately 350 brothers at the time of the Office of the Commissioner. The question is immediate: why deprive ourselves of such vocations if they are authentic? Much more if they were a true testimony of poor and penitential life? The question of missions is by nagging elsewhere if one considers the supposed priority given to "outskirts"… add in passing that the current position of the Holy See by report to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X empty of meaning the charge of "crytpo-lefebvrisme brandished" at the very beginning of the case.

The unit… Really?

The successive Commissioners have never ceased to proclaim their desire to make the unit. However the last religious professions have been uttered with a modified text in such a way to delete the Marian vow and mitigate the radical poverty that the Institute had lived until then. The Marian vow having done in his time the subject of a careful examination, its deletion is hardly understandable, as much more that no irregularity has been raised as to its application. In any case no official decree does problems of this Order. In relation to the desire for unity, the problem lies in the fact that such a change has been imposed by the Commissioner - Don Sabino Ardito, SDB - without consult widely so that such a matter deeply affects the lives of all members of the Institute. The result is immediate: among the Franciscans of the immaculate cohabit of Members whose form of life - manifested by the religious profession - is different! Between those who have agreed to make this new profession and those who have already definitively adopted the life of FFI with the Marian vow and the radical poverty there has now separation. It is therefore necessary to admit that this objective of unit was that of the powder in the eyes and, to this train, things can only go from bad to worse.

Of significant departures

by elsewhere departures - and the desires of departure - multiply before what looks like a sinking controlled by the Authority. Thus two American priests, the Fathers Angelo Geiger and Peter-Damian Fehlner, have recently joined the Conventual Franciscans from which they were derived. What interest will you tell me? These two ex FFI were part of the five signatories of the use of the Holy See which has served as a pretext for the Congregation of the religious for his unwarranted intervention and violent. In summary after having actively participated in the destruction, they choose courageously to leave the vessel. It is not prohibited to a Catholic to appreciate this kind of gesture to its fair measure.

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