Tucho's Pardoned Abuser Friend Laicised - Dicastery Against Dicastery
The previously pardoned pervert was a seminary colleague and close friend of Cardinal Tucho Fernández, who also served liturgically at Tucho’s bishop's ordination.
Don Príncipi was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors by two ecclesiastical tribunals (June 2023 and April 2024), both of which sentenced him to laicization.
Archbishop Peña Parra, who has no jurisdiction in canonical criminal cases, sidelined all previous canonical proceedings in September.
He declared Príncipi guilty of unspecified canonical crimes for having been very reckless in the practice of so-called healing prayers. Don Príncipi was placed under restricted priestly ministry.
This decree of the Secretariat of State has now been declared null and void by Archbishop John Joseph Kennedy of the competent Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Don Príncipi was laicised. The decision is final.
The decree of October 7 addressed him as Mister Ariel Príncipi, as if any canonical decision could remove the priestly character from the soul.
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