We ask for the dismissal of Fr. Fidenzio Volpi from his duty as political
commissioner of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. In the space of five months,
Fr. Volpi has destroyed the Institute, provoking chaos and suffering within,
scandal amongst the faithful, criticism from the press, uneasiness and
perplexity in the ecclesiastical world. It is of little importance to know
whether Fr. Volpi is the artifice or the executor of the plan of destruction...
He prohibited the celebration of the holy Mass and of the liturgy of the hours
in the extraordinary form, provided for by the Motu proprio Summorum pontificum;
he deposed the entire general government of the order, starting from its
founder, Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, who finds himself under house arrest without
even knowing the reasons why; he has deprived of authority and transferred, one
after the other, the most faithful collaborators of Fr. Manelli, all people of
intellectual and moral standing, giving their duties to dissident Friars, often
uncultured and deprived of experience in governing; he has threatened and
punished the Friars who sent a petition to the Holy See and who refused to
withdraw it; lastly, with a diktak dated 8th December 2013, he has closed the
seminary, suspended the priestly and diaconal ordinations; struck the
publications of the Casa Mariana with an interdict, prohibiting their
distribution in churches and sanctuaries entrusted to the religious; he has
extended his personal war to the tertiaries and laity who sustain the Institute,
suspending all the activities of the MIM (Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix)
and of the TOFI (Third Order Franciscans of the Immaculate); he has threatened
to have the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate commissioned and removed from
them and from the Poor Clares of the Immaculate the spiritual assistance of the
Friars; finally he wants to impose upon the Friars a “modernistic vow” of
faithfulness to the Novus Ordo Missae and to the II Vatican Council...
Fr. Volpi accuses all those who criticise him of being against the Pope, but
this tyrannical regime, apart from being unknown in the history of the Church,
is it not in complete contrast to Pope Francis, who has recommended the
avoidance of every kind of authoritarianism and the use of mercy and tenderness
towards friends and enemies? An objective expert on Vatican affairs, Mark
Tosatti, also took note of this, asking himself in La Stampa dated 4th December
“But what have these poor religious done? Have they gambled, abused minors, led
an immoral life? They have done none of these things.”
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