4 thoughts on ““Julius Tischler”: The Future Peter II”
Although he was never degraded to the lay state I am surprised that his bishop did not say he had been ipso facto excommunicated for accepting consecration at Palmer de Troya. However, he did in fact leave Palmer and was saying Mass privately. Perhaps he went back to saying the Tridentine Mass? Either way I would have thought ipso facto excommunication would apply and the bishop would say so publicly. Maybe he did……
I wonder what you needed to do to be defrocked? Here’s a person who have spent several years in prison for very serious crimes committed in the context of his ministry. In fact, even before coming to Austria in 1956 he was in a Hungarian prison for at least some years. I don’t know the details but it seems to have involved other cases of sexual abuse against minors. In the 1970s, Rome handled the laicization process during several years, but evidently did not reach a conclusion. Yes, Engelhardt was suspended and the bishop of Trier did not want him in his diocese, but it’s always difficult to know what suspension implies. I guess he was still allowed to say Mass in private. And he wasn’t even suspended until he received his seven-year prison sentence.
Seems back then that sexual offenders were rarely defrocked but given the jail time served and the Palmarian consecration I remain amazed. Perhaps he was very ‘restricted’ and said Mass illicitly even though he was not meant too.
Magnus Lundberg 
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I wonder what you needed to do to be defrocked? Here’s a person who have spent several years in prison for very serious crimes committed in the context of his ministry. In fact, even before coming to Austria in 1956 he was in a Hungarian prison for at least some years. I don’t know the details but it seems to have involved other cases of sexual abuse against minors. In the 1970s, Rome handled the laicization process during several years, but evidently did not reach a conclusion. Yes, Engelhardt was suspended and the bishop of Trier did not want him in his diocese, but it’s always difficult to know what suspension implies. I guess he was still allowed to say Mass in private. And he wasn’t even suspended until he received his seven-year prison sentence.
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Seems back then that sexual offenders were rarely defrocked but given the jail time served and the Palmarian consecration I remain amazed. Perhaps he was very ‘restricted’ and said Mass illicitly even though he was not meant too.
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