Carmelite Laity Elevated to ‘Coequal’ Status in Latest Neo-Church Democratization of the Hierarchy
The EWTN News portal reports on the first “World Meeting of OCDS Carmelites” held in Ávila, Spain, July 23–26, 2026, where the governing cadres of the Discalced Carmelite structures of the conciliar sect summoned nearly a thousand Secular Carmelites to embrace their vocation as “coequal members of the order.” This gathering, presided over by the sect’s “Superior General” Miguel Márquez Calle and “General Delegate” Ramiro Casale, constitutes a public manifestation of the post-conciliar revolution’s core theological error: the obliteration of the divinely instituted distinction between the Ecclesia docens and the Ecclesia discens, the Teaching Church and the Learning Church, replacing the hierarchical constitution willed by Christ with a democratic, horizontalist model of “shared leadership” and “fraternity.”