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Podrá ejercer de nuevo cuando lo decida: arquidiócesis de León

El sacerdote católico José Luis María y Campos López, quien fue sentenciado a seis años de prisión por abuso sexual a tres menores, fue preliberado de la cárcel y podrá ejercer el sacerdocio cuando lo decida.

Campos López oficiaba misa en la parroquia de María Auxiliadora y los menores abusados, que eran monaguillos, acudían a su casa donde los violaba a cambio de dinero, ropa y juguetes.

En marzo de 2005, la madre de una de las víctimas denunció los abusos del sacerdote ante el arzobispo de León, José Guadalupe Martín Rábago, quien sólo ofreció dar apoyo sicológico.

Ante esto, las madres interpusieron una denuncia penal y el cura fue consignado ante la juez Nora Patricia Neri, quien en 2006 lo sentenció a seis años de prisión por el delito de abuso sexual y corrupción de menores.

Pero mediante el beneficio de la preliberación, el cura salió el martes pasado de la prisión del municipio de León. El viernes unas 200 personas asistieron a la misa que se ofició en la parroquia Las Crucitas para festejar la liberación del religioso.

Raúl Villegas, vocero de la arquidiócesis de León, consideró que el cura puede volver a ejercer el sacerdocio, cuando él lo decida.

Si la Iglesia católica permite que vuelva a oficiar misa será un mal precedente porque deben retirarlo de los templos y no volverse tapaderas, señaló Miguel Alonso Raya, dirigente estatal del PRD.

En tanto, el Tribunal Eclesiástico reabrió el expediente 03/05 que integró contra Campos López derivado de las denuncias por la violación contra los menores.

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OUR FATHER MACIEL, WHO ART IN BED – the book – “I have rarely encountered such a fair, balanced and honest response to religious abuse and the perpetrator of such a wicked attack on the human spirit. Lennon’s memoir of his years with the LCs is not only ‘all that’ but, through the use of song lyrics, Hesse’s novel SIDDHARTHA, his account is both lyrical and emotionally compelling.”

Testimony of Salamanca novice whose parents cooperated with Fr. Maciel and his foundation. This reflects Fr Maciel’s charisma, leadership, or exploitation -it depends on your point of view- of others.

Around the early 1950s Marcial Maciel came to Salamanca, together with our dear Carlos de la Isla. My father helped Fr. Maciel buy the land to build the Novitiate of Salamanca. 

Marcial Maciel was often in my parents’ house. Carlos de la Isla often visited us in the evenings as he was alone, living in a pension [lodgings] that my parents found for him.

When Maciel came to Salamanca with Donia Flora Barragan de Garza, they used to stay at the now defunct Gran Hotel, near the Plaza Mayor. Maciel asked my parents for one of my sisters to accompany Donia Flora during the nights. My sister, Maria Antonia, about 16-17 at the time became Flora’s maid in waiting. 

For many months, I dont remember how many but it was a long time, my mother, my aunt and Fr. Fernando Vergez LC’s mother, whom Maciel called “the holy women” would cook for the Legionaries until they hired proper staff. They did this as volunteers without pay. 

When I finished my Humanities in Salamanca [early 1960s], Maciel sent me to [the Apostolic School in] Ontaneda as a teacher. I spent over two years there until I decided to put an end to my involvment with the Legion. Maciel asks me to wait until he visits Ontaneda. Which he does. I give him my reasons. I tell him what I am seeing and living in Ontaneda with [the sexually abusive behavior] of  Fr. Jose Ma Sanchez, Brother Jesus Martinez Penilla, and his own. He asks me to go to Madrid, and start the Regnum Christi male section with Fr. Alfredo Torres Villanueva. I accept. (They send Arturo Jurado there, too). I stay in Madrid collaborando for two to three years until finally, and fortunately, I lose sight of them. That was 1969.

Author Note: Apostolic School, Junior Seminary; students were aged 11-15, more or less. This made for very young students entering the Novitiate in Salamanca, aged 15. When the first group of Irish candidates entered the Novitiate on September 15, 1961, we thought the Spanish and Mexicans were only “kids”. For the most part they exhibited the enthusiasm and high jinks of 15 year olds.Posted by irishmexguate at 10:30 AM Labels: Sex abuse in Apostolic School

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