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This article seemed too long for the actual bit of concrete news it was reporting. I’m certainly surprised by the ratio of news to comments here. I hope the Pillar can shed some light here through on the ground reporting. Is there something to what Paloma is saying? Like Kevin Tierney, I don’t want to jump to an interpretation that just confirms some of the basic patterns that I don’t like in the global church leadership.

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I'm sorry but writing a long message in english is hard for me but I'll try to give some exemple also sorry for m'y English :

- mgr Rey ordained knowingly ordained as a priest a man who had left his pregnant girlfriend recently. The priest later wanted to raise his child and live with his gf.

- he accepted in his diocese a community founded by a man that the cardinal Pell had expelled from his seminary for homosexual tendency

- he chose to retreat from the private healthcare used by every diocese in France for a cheaper healthcare. This caused many problems for priests and I think people underestimate how bad it is

- the diocese is in so much debt he refuses to raise the monney given to priest while we are having terrible inflation and priest had to pay healthcare out of pocket because of the new insurance

- since he accepted vocations from everywhere, priest from the diocese discovered on ordination day people they had never seen

- he welcomed an ex Regnum Christi as a priest who then left the priest hood to marry "the incarnation of the Holy Spirit"

- many case of sexual abuse (for exemple Henri Suso, child abuser forbidden from being with child that Mgr Rey made chaplain of a juvenile detention center)

- mgr Rey promoted dubious charismatic/evangelical practice with evangelical preacher such as "at distance healing"

I can link local press about it but it will take me a lot of Time and there are paywall

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