The pope accepted the resignation of the auxiliary bishop of Santiago just 25 days after his appointment

ROME.- In a virtual retreat and less than a month after having appointed auxiliary bishop of Santiago de

Chile

May 22, the

dad Francisco

He has accepted today the resignation of Carlos Eugenio Irarrázaval Errázuriz, prelate who will no longer be ordained bishop.

Irarrázaval Errázuriz caused a stir by talking about women and the Jewish community.

The news was announced in a statement from the Archdiocese of Santiago, which was strange because the normal thing is that the

Vatican

to make this type of announcement at the same time as the nunciature of the country.

"With the date of today, we announce that the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Fr. Carlos Eugenio Irarrázaval Errázuriz as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago, a ecclesiastical office for which he had been elected, "he said.

"This decision is the result of a common dialogue and discernment in which Pope Francis emphasized the spirit of faith and the humility of the priest, in for the unity and good of the pilgrim Church in Chile. " Irarrázaval will continue his service as pastor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Providencia, Santiago, "he added.

Beyond this brief statement, everyone in Chile knows that Irarrázabal Errázuriz caused a sensation in an interview with
CNN Chile. When asked if he wanted women to be more involved in the church, Irarrázaval replied, "Maybe they like to be in the back room, maybe . "

"We must all make sure that they can do what they want." Of course, Jesus Christ gave us some direction and if we want to be the church of Jesus Christ, we must be faithful to Jesus Christ (.) It is true that at the last supper, woman sitting at the table and we must respect that too, Jesus Christ took options and did not do it ideologically, "he added.

On this occasion, he also offended the Jewish community. "Jewish culture is a macho culture until today If you see a Jew walking in the street, the woman steps back 10 steps, but Jesus Christ breaks this pattern, Jesus Christ speaks to women , converses with adulterous women, with Samaritans Jesus Christ lets women take care of him, to whom did he ask him to announce the resurrection? To Magdalena, a woman, "said the prelate.

In a previous interview with the newspaper
Mercury, the priest had also provoked controversy to make the Catholic Church look to the future because "stir a warm rice is useless".

These statements were strongly criticized by figures such as
Juan Carlos Cruz, victim of ex-priest abuser Fernando Karadima, who has not hesitated to treat him as a "fool" on Twitter.

When he learned of his resignation today, Cruz did not hide his joy: "The pope accepts the resignation of Irarrazával and will not be ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago!", He tweeted.

This is not the first time that a pontiff backs down and that when he finds that he 's cheated on naming a bishop, before ordering him, he' s the one who 's wrong. invites to resign. It arrived in February 2009, when

Benedict XVI

, Emeritus Pope, accepted the resignation of the Austrian priest Gerhard Maria Wagner, whom he had appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Linz. Wagner made a splash by stating in an interview that God had punished New Orleans for his sins with Hurricane Katrina and in another, he had badociated the Harry Potter saga with Satanism.