Somebody inside the church reported the situation while it was happening; that alone puts it heads and shoulders over a lot of other look-the-other-way situations we only hear about years/decades after the fact.
SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!
“We’re sick and tired of your isms, schisms games”…
They’re like the sovereign citizens of the RCC.
Who owns the monestary?
Probably the monks. Most Catholic Churches, rectories, etc., are locally owned by the diocese, the religious order, etc.
This particular group are apparently sedevacantists of the “Vatican II was wrong and every pope since Paul VI is illegitimate” variety. They reconciled with the Church during Benedict’s papacy (because of COURSE he did) but have since gone off the deep end again. They were founded in 1988 and the founder is still their leader today, and he’s apparently going to be the one to be illegitimately elevated as a bishop, by another sedevacantist bishop who claims apostolic succession from the excommunicated brother of the late dictator of South Vietnam. This all comes shortly after one of the monks apparently drowned himself after the founder disavowed Vatican II and three others “escaped” their island hermitage (AFAIK, the monastery are the only inhabitants of the island, one of the smaller Orkneys) on a clandestine late-night sailing because they couldn’t countenance the heresy.
Tradcath stuff is WEIRD.