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Incardination Offered On Condition of Silence
Incardination Offered On Condition of Silence
Incardination Offered On Condition of Silence
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the moral authority to command anyone to desist from making known the truth
that will bring about conversion for Russia and peace for the world.
Father Gruner cannot abandon the mission that Our Lady has entrusted to him
simply because it has become a source of embarrassment and reproach for
those ecclesiastics and prelates whose programs and policies are at variance
with Our Lady's Message. This is the real reason why the Vatican seeks to
silence Father Gruner. Vague and unspecified pretexts and allegations have been
brought forward against Father Gruner, but no serious charge against him has
ever been made that would justify the authorities to impose silence upon him.
They do not seek to silence Father Gruner for having done evil, but to prevent
him from doing good!
The maneuvering of the Secretary of State, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, in
conjunction with the active participation of Archbishop Palmas, Cardinal
Innocenti, Bishop Pierro and Bishop Fulton have been directed to a singular
purpose: To silence the voice of this Fatima Apostolate. After all the
threats, accusations and warnings, there is no longer any talk of any
wrongdoing on the part of Father Gruner, but on the contrary, incardination is
offered to him on the condition of silence.
Presently as I write, a letter from Bishop Fulton to Father Gruner just now
arrives. The content of the letter confirms what we have already said concerning
the efforts, on the part of the Vatican, to silence this Marian Apostolate. In this
letter of August 9th, Bishop Fulton says: "I have just received documentation
from the present Bishop of Avellino, His Excellency Gerrardo Pierro, in which he
raises the question of your possible incardination in the diocese of St.
Catharines ... As far as incardination is concerned, I would require ... that you
would promise total obedience to me as Bishop and that you would accept an
appointment at my bidding, which would require you to abandon the
present Apostolate which you have chosen for yourself."
It is morally intolerable and canonically illegal that the Church authorities
attempt in this manner to silence a priest from carrying out his priestly task of
preaching the truth. In the Sacred Scriptures, St. Paul tells the bishop, St.
Timothy, to impose silence on those who depart from the teaching of the Church
and thereby dissipate the Faith. (1 Tim. 1:3) It is high time that those clergy
and laity, who are faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, resist the abuse of
authority, whereby the holders of ecclesiastical office tolerate and permit the
Faith to be dissipated, destroyed and expunged from the hearts of men by
modernist priests, while they unlawfully attempt to impose silence on those
priests who remain in steadfast conformity to the Gospel of Christ, the
Magisterium of the Church, and the pontifically approved Message of Our Lady
of Fatima.
I invite and exhort all of you, our readers and supporters, to sign the enclosed
petition to the Pope, and send it to the Holy Father. In so doing you will thereby
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make known to the Holy Father that it is not your desire that the Pope stand idly
by, while Father Gruner, who edifies and strengthens the faith of his readers, is
unlawfully punished and silenced for doing good, while the destroyers and
corrupters remain unhindered and unpunished.
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