SANTIAGO (CHILE)
La Tercera
>>The letter to Pope Francisco in which Juan Carlos Cruz denounced Bishop Barros in 2015
February 5, 2018
By Carlos Reyes and Sebastián Rivas
“Santo Padre, me animé a escribirle esta carta porque estoy cansado de pelear, llorar y sufrir”. Así comienza una carta fechada el 3 de marzo de 2015 y cuyo remitente es Juan Carlos Cruz, uno de los denunciantes de los abusos cometidos por el sacerdote Fernando Karadima.
El destinatario era el Papa Francisco, que por esos días recibía críticas tras designar a Juan Barros, uno de los sacerdotes cercanos a Karadima, como obispo de Osorno.
El motivo de la carta -y de su envío directo al Pontífice-, según explica Cruz en el mismo texto, era que exactamente un mes antes había enviado una misiva al nuncio apostólico en Chile, Ivo Scapolo, en que hacía denuncias contra Barros de sus años junto a Karadima.
“En enero se conoció la designación de Juan Barros Madrid como obispo de Osorno. Santo Padre, para mí y muchísima gente fue un verdadero shock que se hiciese ese nombramiento. Sabiendo todo lo que se sabe. Inmediatamente escribí una denuncia formal al nuncio Ivo Scapolo, a quien hemos tratado de ver y jamás ha tenido la cortesía de recibirnos”, asegura Cruz.
[Google Translation: “Holy Father, I decided to write this letter because I am tired of fighting, crying and suffering.” Thus begins a letter dated March 3, 2015 and whose sender is Juan Carlos Cruz, one of the complainants of the abuses committed by the priest Fernando Karadima.
The recipient was Pope Francis, who in those days received criticism after designating Juan Barros, one of the priests close to Karadima, as bishop of Osorno.
The reason for the letter -and its direct delivery to the Pontiff-, as Cruz explains in the same text, was that exactly one month before he had sent a letter to the apostolic nuncio in Chile, Ivo Scapolo, in which he made denunciations against Barros de los years together with Karadima.
“In January the appointment of Juan Barros Madrid as bishop of Osorno was known. Holy Father, for me and a lot of people it was a real shock to make that appointment. Knowing everything that is known. Immediately I wrote a formal complaint to the nuncio Ivo Scapolo, whom we have tried to see and has never had the courtesy to receive us, “says Cruz.]
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