translated from Spanish: Religious Karadima victim: “Has stolen us so much freedom, so much life, and therefore so much joy”

the priest Eugenio de la Fuente, one of the religious who was victim of Fernando Karadima in El Bosque parish, sent a car “ta El Mercurio where their criticisms against the former priest, but also against Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz and the Archbishop of Santiago Ricardo Ezzati said.” “As a survivor of severe abuses of power and consciousness by the now exsacerdote Karadima, want to synthesize some milestones of this painful moment”, began the missive titled “case Karadima, milestones and reflection”. His recounted began Recalling the Decade of the 80s, where according to at that time the rectors of the greater Pontifical Seminary of Santiago expressed early concerns for what could be perceived in the seminarians who came from the Bosque.En 1987 parish is It issued a first report which spoke of “undue pressures of conscience” attributed to any religious authority where forced young people “to depart even from family” and about the “disaffection with the Church and the Bishop”. De la Fuente details that since 2003, Cardinal Errázuriz receives background information on the abuses suffered by José Andrés Murillo. A year later, both he and Ezzati would have information about what happened with James Hamilton. In 2005, the history of Juan Carlos Cruz would be. However, he criticizes that instead of making a thorough investigation with all the information, only were they limited to consult the Auxiliary Bishop, Monsignor Arteaga, circle of Karadima.” (Cardinal) Perceiving a seriously destructive environment for the person, and with three sexual abuse testimonials accumulated with lucidity, want to ‘protect’ us closing the investigation, being large concern a ‘threat of a scandal’ “, indicates the Fuente.Y ends with” a reflection: “all that we have been the victim of abuse of conscience or sexual has stolen us so much freedom, so much life and so much joy. This take over the life of a person in the name of God, established in spiritual dictatorship, is the basis of all the abuses that are occurring in many areas of our Church is not including many of those who are in charge of driving this institution in serious crisis”.

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