Argentine Father Carlos Miguel Buela has been found guilty “of acts constituting an offence against the sixth commandment, committed with violence against several people.”
Ecclesiastical tribunals have definitively established the guilt of the late Argentine priest—who died in Genoa in 2023—and founder of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) and the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (SSVM), for multiple offences in violation of canon 1395 § 2 of the Code of Canon Law, which concerns offences against sexual morality.
Both the Special Penal Tribunal of First Instance and the Appeals Tribunal reached “moral certainty” regarding the priest’s responsibility.
The decision was announced on Tuesday in a statement signed by Sister Simona Brambilla, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Bishop José Antonio Satué Huerto of Málaga, and Sister Clara Echarte.
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