translated from Spanish: Jesuits in the crosshairs: Renato Poblete whistleblower lawyer aims to whitewash and networks for the protection of the company

The denunciation of the Professor of the Catholic University Marcela Aranda against the deceased priest Renato Poblete and the recognition of the congregation that there are more accusations of similar tenor cont RA the chaplain of the Hogar de Cristo have put all the focus on the society of Jesus.
The Jesuits were one of the ecclesiastical communities that less is had spoken publicly in this context of crisis for abuses of the Catholic Church. So far, as own lawyer of the complainant, Juan Pablo Hermosilla, has all the focus on fixing the responsibilities within the company of Jesus. Professional explained that this is not a trial against Renato Poblete, but its task is to investigate the environment of the religious to unveil the cover-up and protection mechanisms inside of the Congregation.
“The task we have is to seek concealment, but more than that, the mechanisms that made it possible that these things will be (…)” and how is possible that here so much damage was done without that nobody has reacted,”said theology Professor representative told El Mercurio.
Hermosilla said that “what she is asking for today is a research to understand the behavior of the society of Jesus and no one support it at this time. It is more than the cover-up. Because the research she goes looking for show all the mechanisms that allowed these things to pass”.
Among the actions, Hermosilla said that they will ask that he is quoted to declare the entire religious father Poblete environment “because there is a very high probability that this environment would know these things. In fact, the testimony presented by my defended there is description of third parties who clearly knew “.
Even though the lawyer does not give names, among those cited to give evidence in the ecclesiastical process that the Jesuits were in the hands of the secular lawyer Waldo Bown would be Juan Ochagavía, exprovincial of the order, to whom Aranda would have revealed the abuse.
The nickname of Poblete Hermosilla added to another medium that “had a certain spontaneity in the Act of Renato Poblete, he quoted it periodically to the Hogar de Cristo, it was called, I watched it continuously”. Moreover, ensures that the behavior of the priest was an open secret, because “speaking with some Jesuits, told me of a nickname had Poblete (…) and that girls liked.”
“What she wants is to be to unravel the truth of how it is possible that here so much damage had been done without that nobody has reacted.” “And backward, the nickname denotes that this would have normalized and almost transformed into joke”, he added.
The other steps on the possibility of recourse to the civil courts, Hermosilla said that in the first instance they will concentrate on the canonical process, but it is an option that cannot be ruled out.
“The first thing is to fix responsibilities within the society of Jesus, who knew what, why did nothing, and if someone else was involved in these things, etc.” And then one can there just begin to imagine the possibility of compensation or reparation compensation,”said.
The other possibility is to file a complaint for concealment, whereupon the lawyer argues that “for now, the instruction we have on our client is preparing the background, but not start it still, to wait to produce a space of time that the” Society of Jesus can investigate this. They have all the necessary background for the truth: is inside of the society of Jesus. What was the circle of Renato Poblete known. “All of them will have to declare and count the things that knew”.
“Shocked, bewildered and embarrassed” Meanwhile, Cristian del Campo, provincial Jesuit from 2013, said he never heard that cure Poblete had intercourse with women.
According to the priest, the testimony of Aranda is “heartbreaking” and said that the company is not broken, “but it hit hard” with the case of Poblete. “We are shocked, perplexed and ashamed,” he told El Mercurio.

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