Spain: One Bishop Dismisses a Bishop
Monsignor Casimiro López Llorente, the Bishop of Segorbe-Castellón, Spain, has removed Monsignor Cristián Carlo Roncagliolo Pacheco from his pastoral duties in the parish of Benicasim.
Monsignor Roncagliolo is an auxiliary bishop of Santiago de Chile. He left his country after being falsely accused of "improper behaviour" and came to Spain in May 2022 to "undergo a process of recovery of his physical, psychological and spiritual health".
On the instructions of the Dicastery for Bishops, he first lived in the Catholic residence "Mosén Sol" in Alquerías del Niño Perdido.
The Vatican then asked the Bishop of Segorbe-Castellón to entrust him with the task of "relearning a more joyful (sic) exercise of the ministry".
Roncagliolo began working in the parish of Santo Tomás de Villanueva in Benicasim and, according to the diocese, the results were "very positive".
In the meantime, however, some people in Benicasim had found out about the accusation on social networks and began to complain. …More
So many priest have been falsely accused for a pay out and/or to be silenced, Fr John Corapi comes to mind, what a disgusting accusation from a nut job who accused so many other priests, even declaring St. JPII was trafficking children. Sadly the good have been silenced while the bad are running a muck destroying the church.
Remember Cardinal Pell when deciding to judge an accused priest.