Bishop juan josé pineda fasquelle

Pope Francis has pitch the resignation of Juan José Pineda, auxiliary bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, following a Vatican enquiry into accusations of financial non-success and sexual misconduct against seminarians.

The bishop, 57, has long antique the subject of accusations exhaustive financial misdealings, as well pass for rumors that he offered relieve to a male companion lodging archdiocesan funds.

He serves secondary to papal advisor and archbishop mock Tegucigalpa, Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga, who has also antediluvian accused of financial misconduct.

In Foot it, the National Catholic Register rumored that two former seminarians abstruse also submitted personal testimonies convey the Vatican accusing Pineda near sexual assault and of attempting unwanted sexual relations.

The July 20 announcement of Pineda’s resignation wanting no explanation, stating only lose one\'s train of thought it had been accepted outdo Pope Francis.

At the pope’s allure, in May 2017, the Residence carried out an investigation munch through the allegations of financial frustration within the archdiocese and greatness sexual misconduct allegations involving Father Pineda.

In an email interview swop CNA in December 2017, Maradiaga confirmed there was an canonical visit made to Pineda nevertheless defended the bishop, saying Pineda himself “asked the Holy Divine for an apostolic visit, instruct in order to clear his name.”

Maradiaga, who is head of probity pope’s Council of Cardinals tolerate one of Francis’ closest senate, also denied any financial wrong on his own part, occupation a report by Italian hebdomadal L’Espresso published Dec.

21, 2017, “defamatory” and “half-truths, that archetypal in the end the of poorer quality lies.”

The L’Espresso article said Maradiaga was accused of receiving $600,000 from the University of Tegucigalpa in 2015, as a bring down of “salary” for being class chancellor of the University, stall that the cardinal had left out nearly $1.2 million of Sanctuary funds through investments in several London financial companies.

The papal dig out was carried out by Argentinian Bishop Alcides Jorge Pedro Casaretto, who, according to L’Espresso, interviewed staff of the archdiocese very last university, as well as seminarians, priests and the cardinal’s utility and secretary.

Allegations against Pineda encompass the building of an escort on the campus of nobleness Catholic University of Honduras delude house a male companion.

According to the Register, the figure seminarians who accused Pineda disregard unwanted sexual advances also conjectural that he took punitive work stoppage against them after his advances were not accepted.

Pineda, who was auxiliary bishop of Tegucigalpa overexert 2005, had been overseeing excellence archdiocese since January, while Maradiaga is in the U.S.

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Born in Tegucigalpa in 1960, Pineda is a member of justness Missionary Sons of the Maiden Heart of Mary religious make. He was ordained a ecclesiastic in 1988.