An Argentine Insider Explains the Brisk Príncipi Case
The key question in the case of the Argentine priest Ariel Príncipi is the role of Francis and of Tucho Fernández.
Príncipi was twice condemned by ecclesiastical tribunals (June 2023, April 2024) for the abuse of minors and punished with relegation to lay status.
But in September, Archbishop Peña Parra of the Secretariat of State, without any authority, granted de facto absolution to the degenerate priest. Peña Parra reduced the punishment to minor restrictions, without even suspending him. It is inconceivable that Peña Parra acted without the approval of Francis.
On October 7, Archbishop John Joseph Kennedy of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith reversed the decision.
A probable interpretation of the case is given by Caminante-Wanderer.Blogspot.com who reported a key detail that all other Catholic media left out: Príncipi is a very close friend of Tucho, was his classmate in the seminary and assistant presbyter at Tucho's episcopal ordination in 2013.
For Caminante, the latest development is "a new setback for the chaotic Bergogliano pontificate and a new trick by Tucho".
Wanderer assumes that the following happened: "It is probable that Tucho ["bésame mucho"], with the cunning that characterises him, wanted to save his little friend and, thinking that it would be very rude for him to be the one to lift his sentence, he asked Peña Parra, who has an ambiguous [homosexual] background to say the least, to do this little favour."
But thanks to the Internet, the move didn't go unnoticed: "The pressure will have begun to reach the Vatican, and probably also Santa Marta."
Caminante believes that Francis called Tucho and "with the usual expletives and worse" asked him "to clean up the mess" he had made.
Therefore Tucho took the unprecedented action of having the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith annul a decision of the Secretariat of State, thus confirming the punishment of the ordinary process.
Caminante expects that Tucho, who began his Vatican career with dozens of interviews like "a glamorous diva" and who calmed down after the disaster of the homosexual manifesto 'Fiducia supplicans,' will be "even calmer" after the Principi case:
"He knows very well how costly it is to be the cause of His Holiness' anger."
This is the thing I was wondering - who does Principi know, and why did Peña Parra stick out his neck for him.
So your read is that Fernandez made a private request to Peña Parra to interfere with the case on his behalf, since he was personally unable to, given the bifurcation of the dicastery. He trusted that Peña Parra's clout was enough that this would go uncontested, but enough people noticed that Francis specifically instructed Kennedy to step in. Is that right? If so, interesting take for sure.
I don't have any opinion about wanderers proposed sequence of events, but the detail about Tucho's closeness with Príncipi is definitely interesting. He had to at least be aware of all of this .
Wanderer also makes it sound like Principi was quite influential within Argentina (referente espiritual de buena parte del monjerío argentino - I guess that means among religious sisters?), which is depressing.
An Argentine Insider Explains the Brisk Príncipi Case
The key question in the case of the Argentine priest Ariel Príncipi is the role of Francis and of Tucho Fernández.
Príncipi was twice condemned by ecclesiastical tribunals (June 2023, April 2024) for the abuse of minors and punished with relegation to lay status.
But in September, Archbishop Peña Parra of the Secretariat of State, without any authority, granted de facto absolution to the degenerate priest. Peña Parra reduced the punishment to minor restrictions, without even suspending him. It is inconceivable that Peña Parra acted without the approval of Francis.
On October 7, Archbishop John Joseph Kennedy of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith reversed the decision.
A probable interpretation of the case is given by Caminante-Wanderer.Blogspot.com who reported a key detail that all other Catholic media left out: Príncipi is a very close friend of Tucho, was his classmate in the seminary and assistant presbyter at Tucho's episcopal ordination in 2013.
For Caminante, the latest development is "a new setback for the chaotic Bergogliano pontificate and a new trick by Tucho".
Wanderer assumes that the following happened: "It is probable that Tucho ["bésame mucho"], with the cunning that characterises him, wanted to save his little friend and, thinking that it would be very rude for him to be the one to lift his sentence, he asked Peña Parra, who has an ambiguous [homosexual] background to say the least, to do this little favour."
But thanks to the Internet, the move didn't go unnoticed: "The pressure will have begun to reach the Vatican, and probably also Santa Marta."
Caminante believes that Francis called Tucho and "with the usual expletives and worse" asked him "to clean up the mess" he had made.
Therefore Tucho took the unprecedented action of having the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith annul a decision of the Secretariat of State, thus confirming the punishment of the ordinary process.
Caminante expects that Tucho, who began his Vatican career with dozens of interviews like "a glamorous diva" and who calmed down after the disaster of the homosexual manifesto 'Fiducia supplicans,' will be "even calmer" after the Principi case:
"He knows very well how costly it is to be the cause of His Holiness' anger."
This is the thing I was wondering - who does Principi know, and why did Peña Parra stick out his neck for him.
So your read is that Fernandez made a private request to Peña Parra to interfere with the case on his behalf, since he was personally unable to, given the bifurcation of the dicastery. He trusted that Peña Parra's clout was enough that this would go uncontested, but enough people noticed that Francis specifically instructed Kennedy to step in. Is that right? If so, interesting take for sure.
I don't have any opinion about wanderers proposed sequence of events, but the detail about Tucho's closeness with Príncipi is definitely interesting. He had to at least be aware of all of this .
Wanderer also makes it sound like Principi was quite influential within Argentina (referente espiritual de buena parte del monjerío argentino - I guess that means among religious sisters?), which is depressing.