In this episode of The David Hahn Show, David Hahn opens with the week's starkest story from the traditionalist fringe, the illicit episcopal consecration of Father Michael Mary, founder of the Transalpine Redemptorists, and the excommunication that followed within days. He traces the community's path from its 1990s split with the SSPX, through reconciliation with Rome in 2008, to its break during the Covid lockdowns and its declaration that the modern Church is incompatible with the true faith. Hahn walks through Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen's canonical verdict, guilty of schism, excommunicated and barred from the sacraments, and sets it against the recent dissolution of the Marian Friars of the Immaculate in Portsmouth diocese and fresh research from the University of Fribourg showing that while a third of French monasteries have closed since 2007, communities celebrating exclusively in Latin have grown.
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Excommunication, Cordileone's big comeback and the book dividing Catholics
David Hahn on the week's biggest Catholic stories, from a schismatic excommunication to JD Vance's new book
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