Brazilian priest, expelled from the Church: this is the cause

Pope Francis expelled from the Catholic Church the Brazilian Jean Rogers Rodrigo de Sousa, accused of badual abuse in Brazil and who performs pastoral duties in Paraguay, according to the AP agency.

The priest received from the Holy Father the summary of the loss of the clerical state and the exemption of the corresponding obligations, is the subject of a communiqué of the dicesis of Ciudad del Este, chief town of the department of Alto Paran and located 320 km east of Asuncin.

The deportation of priest John Rogers Rodrigo de Souza comes after allegations of faithful and religious allegations of abuse and violations committed by the man during his stay in Anpolis, Goiana, Brazil. The first antecedents date from 2006, according to the Brazilian media.

Father Rodrigo Mara, as it was called in Brazil, was transferred to Ciudad del Este in the midst of a process that the Catholic Church had opened before the complaints.

For his part, Bishop Guillermo Steckling, Bishop of Ciudad del Este, published a report stating that due to the disciplinary procedure that opened the Vatican, the Brazilian priest had been badigned to pastoral tasks in the penitentiaries of the city. Alto Paran. But after the papal decree, De Sousa was excluded from the archives.

According to the Folha Diary of S. Paulo, De Sousa was reported to have been denounced in 2006 for allegations of badual abuse of nuns belonging to an Anpolis Catholic community, the Mara Arch, located in the city. 39 Brazilian State of Goias. The Paraguayan authorities have made no mention of these statements.

Coincidentally, the Paraguayan Bishops' Conference issued a statement in which it affirmed that the fight against the scourge of abuse committed by clergy was a priority for Pope Francis and for all of us pastors.

The declaration was signed by Bishop Adalberto Martnez, President of the Episcopal Conference, who is taking part in the seminar on the protection of minors in the Church at the Vatican.

The last complaint in Paraguay for alleged badual badault by a priest was registered in 2017 before the Episcopal Conference and the prosecutor. A young catechist accused of badual abuse of priest Silvestre Olmedo, dismissed from the direction of a parish and sent to a spiritual retirement home.