As part of the complaint against the Jesuit priest Felipe Berrios for acts of sexual connotation that he would have committed against underage women, the Jesus company reported that the Vatican’s Department for the Doctrine of the Faith instructed the congregation to carry out a Criminal Administrative Process.
Through a statementreport that the decision is based on the previous investigation that has been led since 2022 by the lawyer María Elena Santibáñez.
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In this sense, they explained that the Company appointed “Fr. Dante Simón SDB, Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Córdoba, as its delegate to carry out the canonical process.”
The task of said authority will be to “evaluate the evidence and arguments collected in the Canonical Preliminary Investigation, gather possible new information and receive the defendant’s defense.”
Likewise, these records “should be sent to the Superior General for his decision, in accordance with the canonical norms in force”; and they expressed that it has been “a painful time, especially for those involved in the process.”
Remember that in the middle of the investigation, Berrios resigned from the Society of Jesus in 2022 to return to his home in La Chimba, in Antofagasta and that, months before, He had denounced himself to clarify these facts, since -he pointed out- the facts charged “are not true”.
