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……To Read More…..
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