Posted on 10/11/2024 9:13:44 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
The Vatican’s doctrine office has mandated the laicization of an Argentine priest accused of sexually abusing minors, overturning a surprise ruling from the Vatican Secretariat of State that imposed limitations on the priest’s activities.
In an Oct. 8 communiqué published via the news service of the Argentine bishops’ conference, Archbishop John Kennedy, head of the disciplinary section of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the information regarding the restrictions placed on a priest specified by the Secretariat of State were “voided” and confirmed previous rulings for his laicization.
The case involves former Argentine priest Ariel Alberto Príncipi, who was accused in 2021 of sexually abusing minors while performing “healing prayers” associated with a Catholic charismatic movement. In June 2023, a local interdiocesan court found Príncipi guilty of sexually abusing minors and ruled for his removal from the priesthood. This decision was upheld on appeal by the interdiocesan court of Buenos Aires in April 2024.
Yet in a Sept. 23 message, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the substitute secretary for general affairs at the Vatican Secretariat of State, informed the local bishop that the ruling had been suspended as part of an “extraordinary procedure” following new evidence submitted by Argentine bishops and laypeople in June and July 2024.
Archbishop Peña, considered to hold the third-highest ranking position in the Vatican, wrote that new restrictions were imposed on Príncipi Sept. 20 which prohibited him from contact with minors and exercising pastoral ministry but still permitted him to celebrate Mass privately.
Just two weeks later, Bishop Adolfo Uriona of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto, which was Príncipi’s diocese, said he had received a communiqué from Archbishop Kennedy, which “confirmed the sentence of expulsion from the clerical state for Mr. Príncipi.”
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What’s laicization? I gather it has something to do with defrocking a priest. does it?
Jesus called Judas. Jesus loved him. He loved Jesus. He fell. He fell BAD.
It happens. Most of us fall like 10 if the 12, scatter when the authorities start torturing. God has mercy on those who repent.
It is imperative to remove a man with a perversion toward children from children. And even if he repents, he must be locked away from children, gor he cannot possibly return or even hope to return to holiness while around them. If he wont voluntarily isolate, it must be enforced, for each soul’s sake. We need a penal colony gor the unrepentant, and a cloistered monastary, for the repentant. Our world needs the prayers, our religious too, and children require the protection.
Lay men or religious, the mentally ill dangerous out be restricted for all souls’ sake.
And satan’s dupes will ever be reminding us of our clear failures to stand for Jesus when we should have known better. Which is why we remain humble, but faithful, and hopefull, ...and charitable.
Correct.
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