PERU
Caretas
[Summary: Details about the removal of Auxiliary Bishop Gabina Miranda have not been revealed but sources told Caretas the complaint goes back to June 2012 when a 14-year-old altar boy from Huanta said Gabino improperly touched him. The abuse is said to have happened in the confessional. The Archbishop of Ayacucho, Salvardor Pineiro, who is also president of the Episcopal Conference, immediately opened a case against Miranda in strictest confidence and sent the file to the Vatican. Aware of the complaint, Miranda in April wrote a letter to Pope Francis asking for a sabbatical to reflect on imprudence. The Vatican ignored him and he was gone by early August. Prosecutor Garay Chavez said he does not know if there are more victims but it is believed another complaint was made by a 15-year-old.
Miranda was born in the Curahuasi district in Apurimac and studied at the minor seminary at Abancay. His education was clearly linked to Opus Dei at the major seminary at Our Lady of Cocharcas. He was ordained on Dec. 12, 1987 and he studied theology at the University of Navarre in Spain. He was appointed bishop in 2002 by Pope John Paul II at request of Juan Luis Cipriani, cardinal and Archbishop of Lima. Opus Dei said Miranda is not a bishop of the prelature but belonged to the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross which is separate from the prelature.]
Contra Sextum. Con los vientos que hoy soplan en el Vaticano, este concepto de derecho canónico es uno de los más temidos. Son los delitos que van contra el sexto mandamiento (“No cometerás adulterio”).
Se refieren en primer lugar, al concubinato del clérigo. Pero también a “cualquier forma de pecado externo” que “se comete por fuerza, amenaza, públicamente o con menores de 16 años” (canon 1396).
En carta del 1 de julio dada a conocer por la prensa, el obispo titular de Usula –y auxiliar de Ayacucho–, Gabino Miranda (53), niega haber cometido delito contra sextum a pesar de que “en algunas circunstancias he sido imprudente”.
La misiva se la dirige a monseñor Aloisius Franciscus Ladaria, el número dos de la Congregación Para la Doctrina de la Fe que en mayo pasado decidió en Roma su retiro del cargo y su suspensión como obispo y sacerdote.
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