Articles tagged Dominique Rey

Vatican lifts ban on ordinations in conservative French diocese after new bishop’s installation

Bishop François Touvet was installed as the coadjutor bishop of Fréjus-Toulon and will take many of the duties previously performed by Bishop Dominique Rey, a strong promoter of the traditional liturgy.

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Michael Haynes

• Dec 11, 2023Dec 12, 2023

Traditional French bishop targeted by Vatican will no longer accept new religious communities

The announcement raises the question of whether Bishop Dominique Rey is caving to unjust orders, but things are more complex than that.

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Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent

• Oct 3, 2022Oct 4, 2022

Traditional monastic community in France suppressed after prior was secretly ordained

Bishop Dominique Rey wrote that Dom Alcuin Reid's community was suppressed as of June 10.

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Michael Haynes

• Jun 21, 2022

Vatican tells traditional French bishop to suspend ordinations of priests, deacons

The reason for the sudden brutal – and indefinite – suspension of the ordination of four priests and six deacons in the Diocese of Toulon-Fréjus has not been given by Rome.

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Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent

• Jun 4, 2022Jun 4, 2022

Liturgical scholar ordained in secret by ‘senior prelate’ after bishop repeatedly ignored requests

Dom Alcuin Reid, the prior of the Monastère Saint-Benoît, was ordained in secret in April, after the local bishop did not accept repeated requests and recommendations to ordain the monk despite the future of the monastic community being at stake.

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Michael Haynes

• Jun 1, 2022Jun 3, 2022

French bishops mobilize against 30-person rule at Mass

‘If certain persons … are fined at the end of the Mass, they should refuse to pay the fine on the spot,’ one bishop said, explaining his lawyer would take care of it.

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Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent

• Nov 28, 2020Jun 18, 2021

French bishop recruiting pro-life priests from Americas to re-evangelize Europe: interview

Priests 'must have the courage to proclaim the truths about human life and natural family,' says Bishop Rey.

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Hilary White

• Aug 13, 2014Jun 18, 2021

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Articles tagged Dominique Rey

Vatican lifts ban on ordinations in conservative French diocese after new bishop’s installation

Traditional French bishop targeted by Vatican will no longer accept new religious communities

Traditional monastic community in France suppressed after prior was secretly ordained

Vatican tells traditional French bishop to suspend ordinations of priests, deacons

Liturgical scholar ordained in secret by ‘senior prelate’ after bishop repeatedly ignored requests

French bishops mobilize against 30-person rule at Mass

French bishop recruiting pro-life priests from Americas to re-evangelize Europe: interview