The Knights of Malta have done
the Vatican’s bidding – and
the stage is set for a power grab
[The power has been grabbed - it's now a matter of institutionalizing it]
by Ed Condon
1 May 2017
On Saturday, April 29, the Complete Council of State of the Knights of Malta declined to elect a new Grand Master. Instead, they submitted to the express instructions of Archbishop Angelo Becciu, Pope Francis’s delegate, and elected a Lieutenant ad interim to govern the order for one year.
During this time, the new Lieutenant will work with Archbishop Becciu and others to produce a new Constitution for the order, under the terms of which the next Grand Master will be elected in a year’s time.
Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre Del Tempio di Sanguinetto, the order’s Grand Prior of Rome, was elected to the surprise of almost no one. His name, along with that of the serving Lieutenant Ludwig Hoffman von Rumerstein, were widely known as the two “acceptable” choices. Both were among a select group of knights invited by Archbishop Becciu to a private audience with the Pope immediately before the election and the Pope’s departure for Egypt last week.
Not among their number, and definitely not acandidate acceptable [to the Bergoglio Vatican], was Fra’ Matthew Festing, the deposed former Grand Master of the order. His attendance at the Council became a point of public speculation when it was revealed that Archbishop Becciu had taken the remarkable step of demanding Fra’ Festing not attend the vote or even travel to Rome.
This demand, which purported to command Fra’ Festing under religious obedience, was then
publicly rescinded by the Holy See when it was pointed out that Archbishop Becciu, who had copied the Pope in on the instruction, did not have the authority to command the religious obedience of Fra’ Festing, and whose enforced absence would have invalidated the vote. [One would think Becciu had at least looked up the books as to what the pope or his delegate can and cannot do - under the present Constitution - in the Sovereign Order of Malta, and more importantly, the proviso that the enforced absence of a qualified elector would have invalidated the vote! You can bet all that - and more - will change in the next Constitution confected in and by the Vatican!
But what, besides sheer hubris, caudillismo and autocracy of the first order, would make Bergoglio and his minions so blatantly and shamelessly open in their machinations to overthrow de-facto another state's recognized sovereignty under international law - in the eyes of which the Vatican and the Sovereign Order of Malta have equal juridical status? ]
Meanwhile, the leadership of the order made the formal recommendation to its electors that,
rather than electing a new Grand Master, a temporary leader be installed with a mandate to rewrite the order’s Constitution. This option was widely understood to be one endorsed by both Archbishop Becciu and Albrecht von Boeselager, the order’s Grand Chancellor, whose dismissal last year after a scandal involving the distribution of contraceptives and abortifacients began the current crisis.
This election was only ever going to have one outcome. One knight told me that they had, in effect, received the following message: either they produce the acceptable result of an interim leader and constitutional reform, or it would be imposed on them.
This seemed to be confirmed by a special letter from the Pope, publicly released by the order on the eve of the election, in which he derogated from the order’s constitution and empowered Archbishop Becciu to “receive the oath of the newly elected”. Tellingly, the letter did not say the newly elected Grand Master, and explicitly noted the possibility of an interim leader being produced.
The canonical subtext of the letter was equally interesting. Previously, the Grand Master self-administered the oath upon his election and informed the Pope of the fact of his election. This was a deliberate manifestation of the order’s sovereignty and governmental independence from the Holy See.
The insertion of Archbishop Becciu into the process was a subtle but powerful act of subordination. It carried the unarticulated but distinct legal possibility that he could refuse to administer the oath if he disapproved of the person elected, effectively giving him power of veto over the results.
With the election now over, attention shifts to the process of constitutional reform and the direction it will take. Some speculate that reforms aim to broaden the criteria for those who can be elected Grand Master.
Currently, only professed religious knights, those of the first degree and who take full religious vows, are eligible. It has been suggested that this could be widened to include knights of the second degree which would include, inter alia, Albrecht von Boeselager. It is certainly true that there is a shortage of professed knights eligible for election, fewer than sixty met the criteria this time around.
Last week a document surfaced on the proposed direction of the reforms. It was apparently authored by Johannes Lobkowicz, Chancellor of the Grand Priory of Bohemia and brother of Erich Lobkowicz, who is head of the German association of the order and who was among the select few invited to the audience with Archbishop Becciu and the Pope just before the election, and who publicly attacked both Fra’ Festing and the order’s Patron, Cardinal Burke, during the fracas following Boeselager’s dismissal from the office of Grand Chancellor.
The document explicitly calls for the breaking of the link between the fully professed religious and the governance of the order, thus supposedly widening the pool of candidates for higher offices. Paradoxically, it also insists on the retention of the requirement of noble blood, though perhaps with the potential for case-by-case exceptions. This seems totally at odds with the supposed thrust of the reforms.
Moreover, it appears totally counter-intuitive given that the rationale for breaking the link between the professed religious and the governance of the order is that such an arrangement is anachronistic and debars better qualified candidates; noble blood on the other hand is championed as a very relevant “safeguard” of the traditions of the order and good corporate governance.
I asked one knight about this apparent contradiction in the reform movement’s logic. The response I received was “There are no noble Americans.” Indeed,
many see the push for reform within the order as being not for modernization and enfranchisement, but rather as a power grab from one small group (the professed religious) by another (the German-led clique supporting Boeselager).
At stake is the governance of what is still technically, the Holy See’s recent interventions notwithstanding, a sovereign international government which prints its own passports, wields enormous international influence, and controls considerable sums of money.
The credibility of the reforms, the religious and Catholic character of the order itself, and the true motivations of those who have triggered this whole process will be fiercely tested in the next year; and the new constitution which emerges will show not only who won, but what they were really fighting for in the first place.
Meanwhile, a German Catholic news agency came out on the eve of the Order of Malta elections with the first full account of the entire KM
mess from the point of view of Cardinal Burke, who has characteristically observed great reserve about his public statements, but who
apparently, if only out of fundamental common sense, wished to have his side of the story documented for the record...
Perhaps no cardinal (or bishop for that matter) - and a ranking one at that - has been treated so cavalierly and ignominiously
by a pope as Burke has been by Bergoglio. Who first removed him without cause as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura - the Church's
Supreme Justice, in effect, and one whose qualifications as the Church's top canonist were never questioned, and who was guilty of no
personal or official misconduct - to make him Patron of the Order of Malta, an obvious sinecure, just because it happened to be a vacant
position at the time. Surely, popes owe their prelates and priests as much deference as they claim for themselves!
And then to nullify even that sinecure without so much as a by-your-leave when it became expedient for this pope to grab sovereignty from
the Order of Malta. Leaving Burke in official limbo as a ranking cardinal with neither an official position in the Curia or other Vatican agencies,
nor a diocesan seat. Not to mention the larger limbo of the unanswered and never-to-be-answered DUBIA....
On eve of elections:
Cardinal Burke gives his view of the crisis
in statements to a German Knight of Malta
by Maike Hickson
April 28, 2017
Today, the Austrian Catholic website Kath.net published an important report written by a Maltese Knight about a recent audience with Cardinal Raymond Burke in which the (“de facto suspended“) Cardinal Patron revealed much of the background of the current crisis in the Order.
Burke, who has not spoken publicly on the matter himself, revealed information pertinent to tomorrow’s scheduled election of a new Grand Master of the Order Malta — information that some within the order have now apparently leaked in the hopes of forestalling the Order from being led in the wrong direction.
As Kath.net reports, Fra’ Matthew Festing is now in Rome, but has been “coldly received” and he also was
told to hand over his own diplomatic passport which had been issued by his order.
Since the Kath.net report is somewhat lengthy, I will concentrate for now on the most important parts of this new revelations. Kath.net itself has good connections with people within the Order of Malta, and has repeatedly revealed important information about the current crisis. Importantly,
it also has already received a cease-and-desist order for their reporting on the financial dealings of Albrecht von Boeselager, the current (and re-instated) Grand Chancellor.
First of all, Kath.net published a screenshot of the pope’s own 1 December 2016 letter to Cardinal Burke in which he insists that the moral problems with regard to the distribution of condoms and contraceptives has to be addressed within the Order. [We have previously reported on this letter.]
Kath.net then published the above-mentioned report about a meeting with Cardinal Burke which now has been widely distributed within the German branch of the Order of Malta. It was written by Josef von Beverfoerde, himself a (married) Knight of the Order of Malta... y own translation.
Von Beverfoerde met Cardinal Burke at the beginning of March 2017 and wrote down his report with Cardinal Burke’s approval and with the explicit note that it represents Burke’s own positions, not von Beverfoerde’s. The report was not intended for the public, but is now being widely circulated since it was revealed this week.
Cardinal Burke, at the end of the report, is quoted as having said about the current development of the Maltese crisis:
I find it profoundly saddening that the grave scandal of the distribution of contraceptives and the advancing secularization of the Order which this immoral action represents are now minimized and, effectively, forgotten.
All of the many press conferences, interviews and other interventions through the media on the part of the Order, in the time since the reinstatement of the Grand Chancellor, make no reference to the grave scandal and acknowledge no responsibility on the part of the Grand Chancellor for such scandal.
From my view, I fear that the obscuring of this scandalous situation at the root of the recent difficulties in the Order is not a good augury for the renewal of the Order, according to its long, noble, and thoroughly Catholic tradition.
When speaking about the course of events, Cardinal Burke makes it clear that
- Albrecht von Boeselager was involved in the immoral distribution of condoms and contraceptives, and that a report by the Order itself about these matters was approved by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
- Burke told Festing that the whole thing must come to an immediate end and those responsible could no longer enjoy the Order’s confidence.
- Finally, the Grand Master set up an investigative commission, which presented its first report in January 2016. That report presents the gravity and extent of the distribution of contraceptives by the Order.
- The report of the investigation was submitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for examination.
- On 12 March 2016, its prefect, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, wrote a letter to the Grand Master in which he confirmed the investigation’s report with the words: “The proposal of the above-mentioned report is consistent with the doctrine and practice of the Church.”
- Among other conclusions, the report clearly shows that the Grand Chancellor, Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, who had been Grand Hospitaller
[Health Minister, in effect - responsible for the Order's health and medical initiatives around the world] for the previous 25 years,
had accepted the morally reprehensible practices and had deliberately avoided informing the Sovereign Council and Grand Master about them.
Cardinal Burke made clear in this private conversation with von Beverfoerde that
-
He encouraged Fra’ Festing to take steps to make von Boeselager accountable for his actions, but that he himself did not ask von Boeselager to resign since it was not within his authority as Cardinal Patron.
- The responsibility of the Grand Chancellor [von Boeselager] was evident since the appearance of the investigation report.
- The Grand Master therefore informed Cardinal Burke that he had asked the Grand Chancellor to resign, but that he had refused. During the following months, the Grand Master told the Cardinal of his further attempts to convince the Grand Chancellor of his responsibility to resign.
- As he is the Cardinal Patron responsible for the spiritual constitution of the Order, Burke encouraged the Grand Master in this sense so that the scandal surrounding the distribution of contraceptives and abortifacients would not progress unimpeded, leading to further moral confusion and aberrations within the Order.
When Burke then met, on 10 November 2016, with Pope Francis, the pope was supportive of Cardinal Burke and Fra’ Festing’s approach. Cardinal Burke is quoted as having said to von Beverfoerde:
“Pope Francis expressed profound concern and dismay about the practice of distributing contraceptives by any work of the Order. He urged me [Burke] to collaborate diligently with the Grand Master to make certain that all such practices cease and that those in highest authority who had approved of them be appropriately disciplined.”
Cardinal Burke also made it clear, once more, that he never claimed Pope Francis ordered the dismissal of von Boeselager:
“During the meeting of December 6, 2016,I [Burke] never claimed to have a mandate from Pope Francis to demand the resignation of the Grand Chancellor and, therefore, I, in my capacity as Cardinal Patronus, never asked him to resign, nor did I do so, claiming that I was speaking for the Holy Father.
I made two statements, in the light of the letter of Pope Francis:
1) that it was completely unacceptable to me that an organization, of the high historical and present-day Catholic profile of the Order of Malta, could be engaged in such a scandalous practice over a number of years and yet not hold responsible the senior official who condoned the practice; and
2) that, if the First Report of the Commission of Inquiry is false, as the Grand Chancellor claims that it is, why had he not made a formal correction of the document, especially because it points to his specific responsibility for the scandalous practice.”
According to von Beverfoerde’s report, The Grand Chancellor gave no answer.
This did not surprise Cardinal Burke, however, because on at least two occasions, since he had been informed as Cardinal Patron in December 2014 that Malteser International distributed contraceptives and he had insisted on immediately terminating this activity,
the Grand Chancellor, in open conversation with him at the Magistral Palace, had insistently declared to him: “We have to give contraceptives to these poor women, or they will die.”
Burke’s said he saw it as his duty in connection with the Pope’s letter to say that the Holy Father expected the Order to deal with this serious problem [and that] the Holy See should not be compelled to intervene further.
Cardinal Burke then describes how
Cardinal Pietro Parolin wrongly claimed in a letter to Fra’ Festing that Burke claimed Pope Francis had demanded the dismissal of von Boeselager. Burke immediately called Parolin in order to correct this claim – which Parolin never double-checked with Burke himself – whereupon Parolin merely answered “ ”It was an emergency situation.”
Several other aspects which are not to be found in the English version of the von Beverfoerde report, but which are published by Kath.net, might be of interest here.
- First of all, Cardinal Burke asked Fra’ Festing why he had accepted to resign right during the audience with Pope Francis on 24 January (without further consultation or reflection), and also why he (Festing) agreed to write down in his letter of resignation that Cardinal Burke had influenced him to ask for the resignation of von Boeselager, even though this was not the case.
- To both questions, Fra Festing “only answered that "obedience toward the Holy Father did not give him any other choice,” according to the von Beverfoerde report.
Cardinal Burke also showed his grave concern about the strange monetary donation of 120 million Swiss Francs, part of which the Order of Malta has purportedly received. The origins are murky and nobody claims to know it - the Grand Master had not been even informed about its existence for a long time, according to Burke. In Burke’s eyes,
“an independent audit of the situation should be done, for the sake of the good of the Order and for the sake of clearing up all difficult questions concerning this topic.”
Last but not least, Cardinal Burke also revealed, according to this document,
the undue and disproportionate influence which Cardinal Parolin exercises over the Order of Malta.
- Parolin and von Boeselager “are in a close relationship,” according to the report.
- Von Boeselager himself, the report alleges, had immediately protested when he heard that Pope Francis had appointed Cardinal Burke as the Cardinal Patron of the Order of Malta in 2014.
- From day one on, von Boeselager made it clear to Cardinal Burke that he has “a direct connection to the Cardinal Secretary [Parolin].”
- On several occasions, it became clear to Cardinal Burke that Parolin and von Boeselager were working closely together with regard to internal matters of the Order of Malta.
[It might be added that around the time the pope constrained Fra' Festing to resign on the spot,
1) a brother of Von Boeselager was named to the Supervisory Board of the IOR; and
2) 3 out of 5 members of the Vatican commission named by Parolin to 'investigate' the Order of Malta last January were all closely involved in facilitating the measures effecting a transfer of funds from the 'Swiss legacy' to the Order of Malta.]
The von Beverfoerde report ends with the following statement:
Cardinal Burke over the years had the clear impression that the Cardinal Secretary was – with the help of the Grand Chancellor – closely involved with the matters of the Order, even though Cardinal Parolin never spoke with him, Burke, about the Order and his own service as Cardinal Patron.
The entire Knights of Malta mess precipitated by the Bergoglio Vatican in an unwarranted and grossly illegal power grab is far worse than all the alleged scandals in Vatileaks-1 (the worst of which was the supposed overpricing by some tens of thousands euros of the construction of the Christmas creche in St. Peter's Square in 2010) - and yet neither the Catholic nor mainstream media find anything objectionable, prima facie and worse when examined, about the Malta mess despite reporting almost all its details. THIS IS SO WRONG AND UNFAIR, BUT WHO'S COMPLAINING OR LAYING ANY BLAME AT ALL ON THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS OUTRAGE???
It's bad enough that the media, Catholic and mainstream, conventional and digital, have been largely indifferent to - and worse, non-judgmental - on Bergoglio's anti-Catholicism on some of the most essential points of faith and morals. But it is unforgivable for them to give him such a wide pass, as well, on genuinely scandalous conduct as the Knight of Malta power grab is.
Marco Tosatti's reaction to the Burke expose:
Translated from
The impression that this episode leaves me with is distress. If you read the pope's letter, you cannot avoid the impression that at first, he had supported a certain type of action, but later, counselled or pushed into a different direction, he took back his own words, endorsing instead actions which will certain go down in history not as one of the most glorious episodes in the history of the Church nor of the Order of Malta.
Not to mention the instrumentalization that was immediately launched against Cardinal Burke, 'guilty' for having signed the famous DUBIA on Amoris laetitia and therefore the favorite bullseye of the Bergoglio Vatican - though it be at the cost of a lie brazenly purveyed by the hyperpapal faction. If this is renewal of souls [the Church's primary mission, after all], we are being used.
May 2, 2017
P.S.
I wouldn't have been aware of the ff had not Beatrice featured it on her site today, 5/2/17 - yet it is an April 27 report from LIFESITE NEWS, which for some reason, never made it to either of the two Catholic news aggregators I use (and rely on greatly to at least lead me to the most important stories and commentary in the Catholic world). Anyway, let me post it for the record, because it also adds more crucial detail to the chronicles of the Malta mess that we have seen so far... even if one doubts the Bergoglio Vatican will ever even acknowledge these 'dubia' from the Knights.
Malta Knights petition Pope
to give a ‘reasonable explanation’
for meddling in their Order
by Pete Baklinski
ROME, April 27, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Grassroots members of the Knights of Malta are directly petitioning Pope Francis as a crucial vote for a new leader looms on Saturday.
Members are signing on to an open letter launched by Maltese Knight Dr. Paul J. Camarata.
They say
they want answers to their “serious questions and misgivings” that have arisen after Francis reinstated within the order a fired condom promoter, forced the Order’s head to resign, and effectively removed their patron, Cardinal Raymond Burke, from his post.
“The recent unfolding of serious events that have taken place over the past months regarding the Order of Malta have left many in perplexity,” they write.
“This has been exacerbated by the lack of reasonable explanation presented both to the faithful members of the Order and the public at large regarding actions taken by Your Holiness and Vatican officials,” the letter adds.
(Members of the Knights who wish to sign on can do so by e-mailing Dr. Camarata at camarataKM@icloud.com.)
The letter comes three months after Francis became heavily involved in directing affairs of the Order, which is a sovereign entity and has no official connection to the Pope or the Vatican.
Francis’s involvement began after the Order’s Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing in December ousted the Order’s Grand Chancellor Albrecht von Boeselager. The high-ranking official had been supervising the Order’s charitable arm Malteser International (MI) for years as it quietly distributed condoms, contraceptive pills, and abortifacient pills in poor countries where the Order worked.
But in a series of surprise moves, Pope Francis demanded that Festing resign from his position, which he did, and went on to reinstate the official dismissed for peddling contraception. The Pope then stripped Cardinal Burke of his function, but not title, as the order’s patron, appointing Archbishop Angelo Becciu as his new delegate to the Order.
Members of the Knights are now asking the Pope for “valid clarification and explanation” of all that has taken place, stating that his actions “appear to compromise the Order’s mission, independent sovereignty, self-governance, and spiritual welfare.”
The members make special mention of their concern over Archbishop Becciu recently telling the Order’s former Grand Master Matthew Festing that out of “obedience” he must stay away from Rome during the upcoming election of his successor.
“This act raises questions about the proper jurisdiction of the Special Delegate with respect to all members of the sovereign Order, for it effectively places Fra’ Festing in a state of exile from Rome, it despoils Fra’ Festing of his rights as a member of the Order, and it harms the Order by interfering with a free election of the Grand Master,” the letter states.
News broke Wednesday that the Vatican has now reversed its decision and told Festing he may attend.
The petition to Pope Francis comes after an anonymous source dumped a host of confidential Knights of Malta internal documents online that confirm the extent to which the Pope involved himself in the affairs of the Order.
Included in the info dump is a letter from Pope Francis to Cardinal Burke dated December 1, 2016 in which the Pope asks the Cardinal to see to it that Freemasons are removed from the Order and that the Order “resolve” any distribution of contraceptives it might be involved in.
“Furthermore, the Order must ensure that the methods and means it uses in its initiatives and healthcare works are not contrary to moral law. If in the past there has been a problem of this nature, I hope that it can be completely resolved. I would be very disappointed if — as you told me — some of the high Officers were aware of practices such as the distribution of any type of contraceptives and have not yet intervened to end such things,” the Pope wrote.
The full open letter to Pope Francis:
Inquiry into Grave Concerns Affecting
the Sovereign Military Order of the Malta
Most Holy Father:
With a profound love for Your Holiness and our Catholic faith, and duty bound by our consciences, we, the undersigned Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta respectfully seek clarification by competent authorities of serious questions and misgivings which have arisen recently in the life and governance of the the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
The recent unfolding of serious events that have taken place over the past months regarding the Order of Malta have left many in perplexity. This has been exacerbated by the lack of reasonable explanation presented both to the faithful members of the Order and the public at large regarding actions taken by Your Holiness and Vatican officials.
As a result, members have been left questioning their continued collaboration with the Order. Others who have been recruited to join the Order have manifested their reluctance pending valid clarification and explanation of issues that have taken place regarding due process and valid questions addressing the Order of Malta’s charitable activities and the proper oversight by those in positions of authority over programs sustained by financial support from the Order.
For this reason the undersigned Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta request explanations and documented responses to the following concerns, which appear to compromise the Order’s mission, independent sovereignty, self-governance, and spiritual welfare.
1. Based on media accounts, Albrecht von Boeselager, the Grand Chancellor, was asked to resign by Fra Matthew Festing, the Prince and Grand Master of the order, mainly, though not solely, due to allegations that the charitable entity of the Order, Malteser International (MI), while under von Boeselager’s supervision, funded charitable relief programs that included contraceptive practices contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church.
The allegations concerned the distribution of condoms in the countries of Myanmar, Kenya and South Sudan. We understand that the allegations are derived from a forty-six page First Report produced by a formal international Commission of Inquiry established by Fra' Matthew Festing to investigate the accusations that occurred under von Boeselager’s authority.
We understand that the First Report found that the MI’s policy in respect of ‘RH’ [Reproductive Health] and HIV and AIDS prevention was inconsistent with teachings of the Catholic Church in holding the following positions:
- That it is acceptable to provide contraceptives for birth spacing;
- That it is acceptable to distribute condoms to prevent transmission of STIs;
- That MI should educate people in the use of contraceptives for birth spacing and in the use of condoms as an option for preventing STIs;
- That in certain situations MI had to depart from the Church’s teaching when it perceived its “medical and moral responsibility” to be at odds with those teachings.
Additionally, the First Report indicated that, “those activities of MI […]which are deemed to be inconsistent with the Church’s teaching have not been adequately reported, through the Grand Hospitaller [Albrecht von Boeselager]” to Prince and Grand Master Fra' Matthew Festing and the Sovereign Council.
The Commision for Inquiry’s report was issued in January of 2016 and influenced Fra' Matthew Festing’s request that Albrecht von Boeselager resign in December of 2016. [Almost a full year elapsed between the report and the action against Boeselager! Why?]
2. In 2014, following the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Your Holiness appointed Cardinal Raymond Burke to be the Patron of the Order of Malta. The official role of the Patron is to promote relations between the Holy See and the Order, and to keep Your Holiness informed about spiritual and religious aspects of the Order.
In February 2017, however, as part of a series of decisions made apparently without informing Cardinal Burke, Your Holiness appointed Archbishop Angelo Becciu as Your Holiness’s Special Delegate and “exclusive spokesman” to the Sovereign Military Order.
In a letter of April 15, 2017, Archbishop Becciu, writing in his capacity of Special Delegate, formally commanded Fra’ Festing “not to be present at the Complete Council of State of the Order and to forgo your trip to Rome on this occasion.” He wrote, “I ask you this as an act of obedience, in which you will, without doubt, recognize this sacrifice of yours as a self-giving gesture for the good of the Order of Malta.”
This act raises questions about the proper jurisdiction of the Special Delegate [who claimed in the letter that he was acting with the approval of the pope] with respect to all members of the sovereign Order, for it effectively places Fra’ Festing in a state of exile from Rome, it despoils Fra’ Festing of his rights as a member of the Order, and it harms the Order by interfering with a free election of the Grand Master.
In light of the above, we respectfully request that responses to these concerns be provided by competent authorities so that we can all be united in serving Our Lord through the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 03/05/2017 05:27]