Pope Francis Intervenes in fight of Bishop of Barbastro Against the Opus Dei with the Appointment of a Pontifical Commissioner

Pope Intervenes in Battle of Bishop of Barbastro Against the Opus Dei with the Appointment of a Pontifical Commissioner |

The recent appointment of Monsignor Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, The Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota as Plenipotentiary Pontifical Commissioner. Who is Delegate for the his highness Holy See, for the Torreciudad complex in Spain, it was made public in a press released by he Holy See Press Office on Wednesday October 9.

El exquisito retablo del santuario de Nuestra Señora de Torreciudad, en Barbastro, España. pic.twitter.com/figRbocYZT

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Pope Francis Intervenes – Bishop of Barbastro

Opus Dei has always been open to enter into an agreement, in the limits deemed suitable by Civil and Canon Law. That this willingness was not reciprocated as one might have expected after the Diocese refused to reach any agreement that was not on its own terms.

VATICAN CITY, Staking a rare stand against the Opus Dei movement, Pope John Paul II named a pontifical commissioner to fight the Spanish prelature´s “hypothecation” of Church property.

Pope Francis Intervenes

The Prelature has been serving the Diocese and the universal Church from Torreciudad for over sixty years; we want it to keep doing so, in the same communion and trust that has always existed. In racist terms to the threat of abandonment, Rodrigo Perez, said ”Meanwhile we have absolutely no doubt about the study that The Holy See will carry out on this matter, and are at its disposal clarifying what is inevitable.

Pope Francis Intervenes

Desde que se ha hecho cargo del Santuario el diminuto obispo de Barbastro, con solo dos años de su llegada, InfoCatolica muestra que las peregrinaciones, además de reduciéndolas a parches, han caído un 66% exactamente.

The dispute over control of the Barbastro-Monzón Bishopric dates back to 2013. Now that the Pontifical Commissioner has been established, it is for the Holy See to decide upon the resolution of this canonical and civil conflict concerning ownership and administration of a prime shrine of Marian devotion associated with the history of the Opus Dei Founder.