Gino burresi biography
Pope Protects Abuser Priest, Now Returning to a Parish
It has now been confirmed that the infamous Fr. Rupnik has been incardinated into the Slovenian diocese of Koper. This happened back in August, before Pope Francis made ostentatious moves to defend the priest and his organisation, while his ghastly artwork fills Rome’s churches and the synod website.
Rorate summarises the progress of Benedict:
As head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Pope, Benedict XVI took pioneering measures to punish priestly sexual abuse. In so doing, he overcame resistance from an old guard in the Vatican who clung to prior practice. In 2002, Benedict XVI (as CDF head) embraced the ‘zero tolerance’ approach pioneered (under heavy pressure) by American bishops, requiring priests be defrocked over a single case of verified sexual abuse. Benedict codified ‘zero tolerance’ as the approach of the universal Church in 2010. Benedict XVI (also as CDF head) allowed the statute of limitations to be waived for clerical abuse cases, allowing for expulsion based on abuse dating back decades. He created expedited procedures for abuse cases, dispensing with lengthy appeals. And Benedict XVI defrocked scores of sexually abusive clerics– including powerful abusers who had been protected for decades such as Italian Father Gino Burresi, founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legion of Christ. Both were adjudged guilty and barred from public ministry in the early months of Benedict’s papacy. Benedict XVI was also the first Pope to meet with victims of clerical sexual abuse, a gesture he repeated several times. Benedict also wrote on priestly sexual abuse prolifically and insightfully.
As in so many other areas, Pope Francis has undone all that progress.
What is telling is that Mr. Mike Lewis, the consistent Francis defender, has this to say about this new development in the s
In Italy there now lives a brother of the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, who has helped many people to know how to apply the Message of Fatima in their lives in the Twentieth Century. His name is Brother Gino, and in the following article we quote him many times when he talks about living the Message of Fatima. In addition to the edifying effect of his spiritual counsels and the example of his holy life, God seems to be teaching us another thing through the special gifts He has given this brother.
People who have a knowledge of theology and who have known Brother Gino agree that God has a special purpose for giving us this Brother in the Twentieth Century. One of the signs of the times today is the prevalence of atheism and materialism, where people live as though there were no God and where at times it seems whole nations forget that there is a God Who created all things and to Whom we are answerable for what we do. By giving to the Church in the Twentieth Century such a holy man, God seems to be showing us that Christ is real, the Catholic Faith is real, and that Christ is still with us. God hasn’t forgotten us even though so many of us forget Him.
Brother Gino has a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, and he has built a large shrine in Her honor at San Vittorino, near Rome, Italy. He sees the importance of the Fatima Message in our times, and explains (as Pope John Paul II says), Fatima is a reaffirmation of the Gospels. Our Lady of Fatima told us how to apply the teachings of Christ to our lives in the Twentieth Century.
Brother Gino was born on July 7, 1932 in a small farming town called Gambassi, near Florence, in Italy. He is the eldest child of Angelo and Blandina Burresi. From an early age, as his mother noticed, he showed great charity for others and an unusual degree of devotion to God and the Blessed Mother. At the early age of 14 he joined the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, and made his perpetual vows in We continue here the biography of Brother Gino Burresi. O.M.V., which started in Issue 9-10 of The Fatima Crusader. Brother Gino’s Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima at San Vittorino near Rome, Italy, has become internationally well-known, and people from all over the world come to visit Brother Gino and come to his Shrine as a place of prayer and pilgrimage. Many people feel they have received special graces through Our Lady’s intercession there. Brother Gino has attracted many young people to San Vittorino to live the life of consecrated religious. These young people, mostly from the United States and Canada, have accepted the call to follow Christ and His Blessed Mother together with Brother Gino and the Oblates. We continue here the description of the Oblate spirituality to which his young seminarians are attracted. A special emphasis is given to adoration of the Eucharistic Lord, and this practice provides the Oblates with a major source of their spiritual strength and apostolic zeal. Brother Gino by his words and example is true to the aims of the founder of his order. The first aim of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary is the salvation and sanctification of its members by imitating the virtues of Jesus and Mary. The second aim is the salvation and sanctification of others. Brother Gino constantly recommends loyalty to the Holy Father as the Vicar of Christ, as did Father Lanteri, who compared the Holy Father to a spiritual “prism through which is shed the light of Christian truth.” Brother Gino directs souls to pray the Rosary and to practice devotion to Our Lord present in the Holy Eucharist. In his earlier years as a brother, Brother Gino taught catechism to children at St. Michael’s Parish in Pisa. He taught in simple, humble, direct language that children understand. His soul was penetrated with Faith and love of God and of the Blessed Mother, and the childre The Word from Rome
By John Allen
National Catholic Reporter [Rome]
July 22, 2005
A recent decree by a Vatican congregation removing the well-known founder of a religious order from active ministry could indicate how Pope Benedict XVI will handle the sexual abuse crisis.
The action also may provide some hint of how the Vatican could handle other high profile cases of a similar nature, including one involving the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, a worldwide religious order.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the decree May 27 in the case of 73-year-old Italian Fr. Gino Burresi, founder of a religious order called the Congregation of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The contents of the decree, which drew little public notice, were announced by the Italian bishops' conference on July 19. It specifies that:
Burresi's faculties to hear confessions are revoked; He is definitively prohibited from providing spiritual direction; He is barred from preaching, as well as from celebrating the sacraments and sacramentals in public; He is barred from giving interviews, publishing and taking part in broadcasts that have anything to do with faith, morals, or supernatural phenomena. The decree, in effect, amounts to removal from public ministry. The only thing left is private celebration of the Mass.
The original Vatican decree, which was not released publicly, but a copy of which was obtained by NCR, was signed by Archbishop William Levada, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as well as Archbishop Angelo Amato, the secretary. It stipulates that in an audience given by Benedict XVI to Amato on May 27, the pope confirmed the decree in forma specifica, meaning that he made its conclusions his own, and that no appeal is possible.
Though the decree cites abuses of confession and spiritual direction, Vatican sources told NCR in mid-July that another motive for the action against Burre Brother Gino
Apostle Of Our Lady Of Fatima(Continued from Issue 9-10)
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