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trotsky

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7. Vatican statement:

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 08:00 AM

Oct 2018

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/10/13/181013d.html

The Holy Father has removed from the clerical state Francisco José Cox Huneeus, archbishop emeritus of La Serena, Chile, member of the Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, bishop emeritus of Iquique, Chile.

Anyone know exactly what "removed from the clerical state" entails? Are they now off to the ol' "lifetime of penance and prayer" at a lovely apartment in Vatican City?

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