12/22/2020 13:04
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/22/2020 1:11 PM
The parish priest Camilo Dib
attacked the
bishop of the Diocese of southern Mendoza, Eduardo María Taussig, when they both held a meeting in the Bishopric in San Rafael, reported from the clerical headquarters.
"At one point,
Dib lost control and suddenly attacked the Bishop with violence
. This first attack was followed by the breaking of the seat in which the Bishop was sitting," said a statement from the Bishopric of San Rafael, which specified that the episode occurred this Monday.
For the fact, Dib
"was suspended and prohibited from all use of his priestly ministry
,
"
added the official text.
The attack took place
within the Bishopric
when Taussig shared a meeting with Dib, who is Vicar of the Nuestra Señora del Carmen Parish in the city of Malargüe, also in the southern province.
The reason for the meeting was "to offer Dib the
opportunity to disclaim his participation in the events that occurred in Malargüe
, on November 21," within the framework of
protests over the conflict
that occurred around the closing of the Seminar Holy Mary Mother of God, indicated the press area of the Bishopric.
Dib would be the one who days ago
would have encouraged the faithful to make an escrache to the Bishop
after the decision to close the local seminary.
"Canon Law, in its canon 1370, declares that if a cleric uses physical violence against the bishop, he automatically incurs the censure of Suspension, for which he was automatically suspended for the act carried out, and Camilo Dib
is prohibited from using his priestly ministry
, "they added.
After this first attack, those present "tried to stop the fury of the priest who, despite everything, once again tried to attack the Bishop who, thank God, could be covered by one of those present, withdrawing from the office where they were ", they indicated.
Then, when everything seemed to have calmed down, Dib grew furious again and, beside himself,
tried to attack once more the bishop
who had retired to the bishopric dining room.
Finally "it was Father Alejandro Casado, who accompanied the attacker and took him out of the Bishopric, both of them permanently retiring in their vehicle," they said.
As published by the
Diario San Rafael
portal
, in November, when Taussig visited this department to perform a mass in the Parroquia del Carmen in tribute to Father Pablo Fuentes, he had also been received by a group of neighbors with banners calling for his resignation.
On that occasion,
the four wheels of his car
also
punctured him and he had to return in another car
.
During the protests, posters that read
"Monsignor traitor", "Wolf dressed as lamb"
, "We are orphans of shepherd", "No to the closing of the seminary", "We ask for an apostolic visitor", while similar messages were hung in front of the seat of the bishopric in San Rafael.
The closure of the seminary took place within the framework of a dispute over the
non-compliance of some priests who refused to give the host in the hand to the faithful
instead of doing it in the mouth, as indicated by the sanitary protocol for the pandemic of coronavirus.
Following that decision, the local Catholic community fears for the fate of the seminarians currently attending San Rafael, and they do not know where and how they will continue their vocational career next year.
With information from Télam.
JPE