On June 2, Dominique Rey, Bishop of Frejus-Toulon, announced that the Vatican had asked him to postpone the ten ordinations of deacons he was to grant at the end of the month. Asking the Holy See about the welcoming policy of the most powerful seminary in France, the diocese, the bishop announced that he had received the news. “In pain և in trust”. When will the hostages of the seminary be ordained? Is the bishop even more severely threatened? In Toulon, both the clergy and the faithful, even those who did not feel on the same page as their pastor, were all amazed to learn of the Vatican’s decision.
Classified as a curator by Parisian journalists, Mgr Ray, appointed by Bishop John Paul II, is in fact a missionary leader who has turned his diocese into a dynamic pastoral laboratory operating in all directions …
Source: Le Figaro
