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Traditional Catholic Faith => Anσnymσus Posts Allowed => Topic started by: Änσnymσus on November 23, 2025, 12:38:00 PM
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I am heavily disturbed by Father Vernoy. My mom is cuban and knows the horrors of communism. Persecution of priests, destruction of churches. You name it. Father Vernoy goes to Cuba monthly. He claims he is going there to preach...... first off...... any religious in Cuba attempting to preach would be arrested immediately. Why is he going there and giving money to the communist regime? He loves it so much....he named his cat Fidel. I question whether he preaches in Cuba. I wouldn't be surprised if he just goes to live it up in luxurious tourist areas. He treated my mom horribly. Accused her of not being a Catholic and did an exorcism prayer over her. He had an attitude. My mom escaped the horrors of communist Cuba. Father Vernoy treated her badly.
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Just curious but where is he stationed?
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Just curious but where is he stationed?
Sanford fl
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Just an old interview...quite good imo
Unofficial Translation.
https://courrierdesameriques.com/2015/12/06/abbe-marc-vernoy/
"...Father Marc Vernoy, 50, from Pont-Audemer in Normandy, is superior of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X for Florida. The Fraternity composed of more than 600 priests, it is nevertheless the rallying point of a very large number of practitioners attached to the Tridentine Mass (whose main singularity is to have mass largely in Latin). All his priests wear the traditional black cassock (or white when it is very hot). Father Vernoy was a priest in France for 10 years, but he is also in his 10th year abroad, according to the mutations (imposed by the hierarchy): India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, then superior of the Fraternity for all of Africa, before taking the direction of Florida where he supervises from Sanford (Orlando) seven places of worship (in Miami, Fort Myers, etc...) and a school.
He is the only French priest to practice in Florida.
LE COURRIER DE FLORIDE: After these experiences on various continents, where is it easiest to be a Catholic priest and wear a cassock?
Fr V. To tell the truth, I never ask myself the question of the ease or difficulty of the ministry. We do not know for how long we are appointed here or there and the great rule to be happy is to give the maximum, to adapt to local life to live it fully. That said, it is essential to always remember where we come from and to remember who we are. Our community life is a necessary help to guarantee us a minimum of stability and to recharge our batteries with God, in order to always keep our way to Heaven.
I'm starting my sixth year in Florida, I'm very happy there in every way. As for the wearing of the cassock, it constantly reminds us who we are and announces the presence of God in society, it is an excellent tool of apostolate. I sometimes confess and bless in stores, in airports, by plane, at gas stations. I have never encountered any real difficulty anywhere, it is only in the gloomy atmosphere of Paris where you can sometimes be taken for an extraterrestrial.
The CDF: But is the United States still a rather benevolent land for religious people?
The United States is a huge country where the religious is not received everywhere in the same way. The Florida reception is excellent, there is a real interest in the spiritual life. In five years, our parish in Orlando has seen its congregation grow by more than 150%. The new parishioners are essentially young families. It is a great joy for the priest.
The CDF: Pope Francis had the desire, especially with the recent synod or with his statements during his trip to the USA, to defend "sinners", especially remarried divorcees or ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, by "evolving the Church" about them. Did you feel targeted when the pope challenged the "Pharisian" spirit of Catholics who would defend the law too much at the expense of charity?
Fr V. This approach is that of Christ, who came for sinners, it is a missionary approach and our Fraternity is a missionary congregation founded by one of the greatest missionaries in Africa in the 20th century, Bishop Marcel Lefebvre. It is unfortunate to see law and charity, justice and mercy presented as opposed by the media, when they are perfectly united in Catholic life. The Gospel is the Law of Love, because God is such. But it is an objective law that transcends time and space and addresses the heart of everyone. We live in a world where we no longer know how to love, because we have unlearned to love, we meet suffering souls who have lost the ability to love because they confuse pleasure - till they are addicted to it, till slavery - and love which is a gift. The nombrilist (self-centered) tendency makes you unhappy. We must relearn to forget oneself, to live in the reality where God remains and to continue to speak the truth about sin, this is the first and fundamental mercy.
Christ very strongly reproaches the Pharisees for altering his word, by multiplying the exceptions to the law and imposing their arrangements. "You annihilate the Word of God, by giving yourselves precepts that are commandments of men. (Mark 7,13). Against the Pharisees who denatured marriage through repudiation and divorce, Christ restores the holiness and simplicity of marriage where true love is found in the gift and also in sacrifice. For defending the sacrament of marriage, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Thomas More, Saint John Fisher were beheaded.
Christ loves the sinner, but hates his sin, this truth is both just and merciful.
The CDF: What is the most difficult during a long expatriation? What is the most missing from France?
The priest is never truly expatriate, he is not welcomed as a foreigner. This makes adaptation quite quick and rather easy. Until the middle of the 20th century, many missionaries never returned to France. Our rule of life allows us to keep our identity, because we must not forget where we come from and who we are, it is an immeasurable wealth and a guarantee of balance.
I am happy to be able to return once a year to visit family and friends, but I gladly admit my weakness; I am divided: on the one hand bitterness and gloom in France are very heavy. Life here in the United States is better from this point of view! However, if my superiors asked me to contribute to helping my country, I would know how to sacrifice this "American comfort", and I will be happy about it.
For what I miss the most, it is certainly cultural life, the real one.
The End.
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I had never heard about this priest, but you need to write a better story, otherwise this is just gratuitous slander.
It's a good thing that you mother has escaped from Cuba. There are few who manage to do it.