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The Bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza, who is investigating the Vatican for alleged ongoing sexual abuse of a minor, has made decades of controversial decisions since arriving in the Andalusian city 14 years ago, but always with a very shrewd mind: money. Unjustified sackings, unjustified dismissals, seizures of the bishopric’s fortunes and fortunes, as well as a barrage of reprisals against internal critics. So I tried to rely on the silence of the rest of the Catholic community in Jeddah, among the priests who advocate for a Church less tied to economic benefit and more tied to the poor.
“He is very sectarian, very dictatorial, he does not empathize, he does not dialogue, he surrounds himself only with those who applaud him. He is only concerned about the question of how to make money, and he has nothing to do with Christian values. His position is not evangelical, just worldly. He has the image of a real estate businessman, always dependent on houses, farms and land,” says Juan Cejudo, a member of the group Christians for Thinking and Action in Bahía De. Cádiz, which defines Zornoza’s controversial character without hesitation. Yanade: “We wanted a pastoral Obispo and a dialogue with the healers, but he is authoritarian and cool and Obispo is not at all sensitive to social problems. The son’s conditions do not correspond to the average Christian, let’s not say oh with Obispo.”
This group, which has brought together nearly 300 companies against the bishop, has denounced his administration for a decade and the media before Pope Francis, the Spanish Episcopal Confederation, the Department for the Appointment of Bishops and the nuncio. Over these years, no institution has moved to file a request to dismiss Zornoza (76 years old), despite internal complaints.
Regarding the child sexual abuse charge revealed this month, a cleric confirmed the anonymity: “Everyone knew, including the announcement. The letters appeared and the child sexual abuse came a long time ago, killing more victims, without anyone suspecting it.” The victim who reported her case to the Vatican reported continued sexual abuse during the 1990s. This diary attempted to re-polish the episcopal version that was sent to the statement issued this month.
Decades later, in 2011, Zornoza arrived in Cádiz with economic benefits, and this time his victims suffered from the bishop’s economic abuses. A very controversial situation, capital income cap, in a province always plagued by unemployment, with very serious problems of housing shortage and migration drama to the skin.
The last letter from the group of Serious Christians to the ecclesiastical hierarchy, in this case addressed to Obispo’s appointee, José Cobo, in 2024, reveals an extraordinary cruelty against the bishop: “We need a more sensitive Obispo, as was the case with his predecessors (…). His actions, directing the diocese in an authoritative way, dismissing workers from the episcopate without thinking and showing every day that what really matters is not the people, but the material and economic benefits to those who need it most, what does that mean? New evangelization Have we reduced it to simple marketing strategies?
The Catholic Jadetan rules began in 2013 with the bishop who enabled part of the seminary, with a capacity of 150 people and floor occupied for a decade, allowing the entry of homeless people and refugees to abandon the streets, preñadas de humedad while in the city surrounded by the sea. But the bishop refused to facilitate the matter. Only the priests publicly criticized their administration, but the reprisals were very harsh, commenting on the sources of the case.
Among the positions renewed by Zornoza, he highlighted the director of the Diocese of Caritas, Juan Luis Torrejón, for his refusal to allocate funds from this organization to other goals of the church. “The former director of the ecclesiastical entity publicly denounced, and continues to do so, that the bishop removed him from his position for refusing to allocate funds from the poor for other purposes of the Church, where, for example, he was contributing 13,000 euros to the episcopal audit or paying rent to the Church for a center that Caritas had ceded and rehabilitated with its own funds and subsidies,” the letter from the Church said. A group denouncing Christians.
During his three years in Cádiz, Zornoza left the presbytery, confronted several priests, fired about two dozen bishopric workers and evicted tenants from the sites of his century-old businesses, such as the Rincon del Madueno bar. Meanwhile, other people are forced to leave their homes because they cannot pay the rental fees imposed by the bishopric. Among their most controversial decisions, many religious people expressed their protest against the decree issued by the bishop to supervise more parishes and grant new powers to the diocesan fund to have direct access to the accounts of each parish. “This question aroused great distrust and provoked rejection from many priests,” summed up the critical Christians.
Ildefonso Portillo, 73 years old, is a good example of this blog, which denounces many critical voices in the Andalusian city. Portillo and his wife worked as caretakers and albanians from 1975 at the secluded Capuchina convent in San Fernando, until the nuns left eight years ago. “The bishop ordered that we love the Capuchins, but they refused to obey. It required the bishop’s offices to pay us their money, after they had worked day and night for decades for the church,” Portillo says with a bitter taste.
The man unsuccessfully sought a solution for the diocese, due to his lack of resources, and filed an appeal with the Supreme Court after Zornoza’s lawyers won the dispute in the first and second stages. For now, Portillo is fighting back in his villa, but the church and monastery works began after a change in the general plan approved by Ayuntamiento Island and is now awaiting appeal to the Supreme Court.
“I only ask someone else to help me or provide me with a home while I live, not for my children, but for ours, as we will see ourselves in poverty, with one hand behind me and the other behind me. My wife was never laid off and paid the minimum wage and renounced many climbs that went along with me. I believe in God, but I was disillusioned by this tyranny.”
“For Zornoza, the people of Cadiz are cave dwellers,” concludes one of the people who fought in the courts against the bishopric of Cadiz in the last decade, anonymously. “They removed the priests from their plazas to bring more appeals from Madrid. Numerous denunciations of economic irregularities by the bishopric have been substantiated, because the bishopric provided a benefit of 1.8 million, according to Transparency.” “Do you know how many people have the poor performance of the portal on its website so that the church can boast of having benefits in Cádiz?”
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