Costa Rican priest suspended, sent for psychological treatment for celebrating Latin Novus Ordo

The removal of Fr. Sixto Eduardo Varela Santamaría, who until very recently was the Chancellor of the Diocese of Alajuela, leaves hundreds of devotees of the traditional liturgy in Costa Rica without a pastor. Fr. Sixto Eduardo Varela Santamaría celebrating Mass, in an undated photo. (Image courtesy of the author) A Costa Rican priest says he has been suspended, removed from his parish, and sent to psychological treatment by his bishop who is angry with him for celebrating the reformed liturgy in Latin and ad orientem.-- More...