FALSELY ACCUSED PRIESTS RETURN TO MINISTRY

GRANADA (SPAIN)
ChurchMilitant.com

November 30, 2017

By Stephen Wynne

Court orders one accuser to pay court costs after false account dismissed

GRANADA, Spain (ChurchMilitant.com) – After a long battle over false accusations of sexual abuse, three Spanish priests are returning to ministry.

The archdiocese of Granada has announced the Vatican is lifting its precautionary suspension of Fr. Román Martínez and two other priests associated with the case.

In a communiqué released Wednesday, the archdiocese proclaimed:

The archdiocese of Granada, today, November 29, 2017, makes public the decision of the Holy See to have the precautionary canonical measures lifted from Mr. Román Martínez Velázquez de Castro, Mr. Francisco José Martínez Campos and D. Manuel Morales Morales, who had imposed them since October 15, 2014. Consequently, from today they return to exercise their priestly ministry, and on this same day they have received the communication of a new pastoral assignment.

The reinstatement comes after Fr. Martínez, the lone defendant in the case, was acquited of all charges in a Spanish court and complainant David Ramirez Castillo was ordered to pay all legal costs.

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