On October 10, 2019, the Heralds of the Gospel were sought by Carta Capital magazine and, for 45 minutes, answered some questions brought by reporter Thais Reis Oliveira. The interview was carried out at the Mother House of the Heralds of the Gospel and was attended by Fr. Alex Barbosa de Brito, member of the Virgo Flos Carmeli Clerical Society of Apostolic Life and spiritual assistant to the Heralds of the Gospel.
The reporter asked about any links between the Cultural Association Of Our Lady of Fatima and the Heralds of the Gospel, and still inquired whether the first financially supported the second. The Ep. Alex replied that the Cultural Association Of Our Lady of Fatima is a non-profit civil association, founded before the Heralds of the Gospel, by people who are not members of this institution.
Watch the response in the video below:
Summary
For some time, the Cultural Association supported the work of the Heralds of the Gospel, including financially, according to its own statutes:
"In the campaigns they promoted and how they wanted to support our activities, they helped; […]but, as associations, they are entirely independent is[…] obvious, they can support or not."
Another question raised was whether the donations that come from the Cultural Association Of Our Lady Fatima financially support the Heralds of the Gospel. The negative response can be proven in notary, explained the interviewee.
The interviewer questioned, then, the fact that there is a priest from the Heralds who signs letters from the Cultural Association Of Our Lady of Fatima. The priest observed that this priest signs as a spiritual assistant, just as a priest can be chaplain of a hospital without being part of his statutory staff.
Asked why in some parishes where Herald priestmasos celebrate, they do not present themselves with their own habit. The Ep. Alex explains that the priest's obligation is to be
"with some distinctive sign that he is a priest or according to local customs approved by the episcopal conference. […]. So sometimes I can be using it, I [o hábito]may be clergyman, I may be in a cassock."