From Grassi to Acevedo, the Argentinian Church functions as an Omertá that covers up the crimes of the paedophile and criminal “brothers”. Pope implicated.

October 14, 2023

From Grassi to Acevedo, the Argentinian Church functions as an Omertá that covers up the crimes of the paedophile and criminal “brothers”. Pope implicated.

From Grassi to Acevedo, the Church functions as an Omertá that does not let go the hand of the paedophile and degenerate “brothers”- article from 2020

Bishop protected by Pope- see below

Father Grassi also asked to be released from prison for fear of catching coronavirus

The title is a synthesis of the historical behavior that the Church has had in the face of the existence of paedophile priests, abusers, rapists and degenerates, who devastated dioceses, churches, religious institutions, retirement homes, foundations for disabled children or in a street situation, etc.

This returns to the fore with the statements of the Bishop of Río Gallegos Jorge García Cuerva in relation to the “excommunication” of the paedophile priest Daniel Omar Acevedo, by Pope Francis and which gave rise to demonstrations by Cuerva for Telam, who communicated “ I must inform you that Pope Francis, on May 31, decreed the resignation of Daniel Omar Acevedo; Therefore, he has lost the rights of the clerical state, he has been excused from his priestly obligations and celibacy and is excluded from the exercise of sacred orders. “This decision is supreme and unappealable.”

However, it should be noted that the accused priest remains free despite the fact that the complaint comes from 2016, the Bishop himself said "I do not know at this moment how criminal justice has progressed", which means that the Church is not the one has criminally denounced Acevedo (but not his victims) and in the clear resolution, the Pope described as “inappropriate conduct the clerical state of the former Catholic religious when he served in parishes of Río Gallegos and Tierra del Fuego”, an elegant and laundered way of communicate and not say things by their name, keeping the forms before protecting the victims, even more so knowing that there may be many more abused young people who do not know each other.

Said like this and the evidence abounds in the country and the world, it is clear that the church as an institution, first, has not wanted to recognize the crimes committed for years in its name and when it finally gave in to public pressure and justice, it limited itself to “excommunicate”, but it does not become a complainant, a whistleblower nor does it ask for prison for the criminal. What's more, in a large part of those cases (and it happened with Acevedo himself), he worked as a priest in the Santa Cruz police and after the victims' accusations he was transferred to another parish. It was always “normal” for the church to take the rapist/abuser priest out of focus and transfer the problem to another place, where he would commit crimes against other people again, just to hide the facts and not be the target of criticism. That is to say, the Church has been complicit in these scourges for many years, with honorable exceptions.

According to the BishopAccountability.org registry published by OPI that compiles cases of abuse in the church, the complete list of abusive priests reported in the country is as follows:

Argentine priests and brothers denounced in Argentina

Foreign priests and brothers denounced in Argentina

Argentine priests and brothers denounced in other countries

Complicity and silence

On November 6, 2002, the Executive Commission of the Episcopal Conference issued a ruling regarding the complaints presented and emphasized persecution of the Church/institution with concepts such as feeling “admired” (at that time) “by the 105 attacks that they intend to blur the image of the church in order to lose the reliability that society recognizes in it…” and in the same document he gave as an example what happened to the former archbishop of Santa Fe, Edgardo Gabriel Storni, and Julio César Grassi, of whom the Episcopal Executive Commission, said that he had been accused from a television program, understanding that there was a tendency to destroy the image of priests, to attack the Catholic Church.

“It is no excuse – the document says in the concluding part – for condemning judgments to be issued about individuals or institutions before, once the case has been proven, the corresponding power is issued. The opposite - he adds - would be to base the insult to the good name and fame of people exclusively on presumptions; In addition to hurting their honor, he says, it also hurts the feelings of a large part of the community, as if the Church did not have the tools to know, before any prosecutor or judge, what is happening within its four walls. The intention to cover up its members is clear. Obviously, they hide and protect them, sending them, for years, from one diocese to another and instead of aborting the problem, they expand it.

The worst example

Julio César Grassi was the paradigm of ecclesiastical cover-up in Argentina with. friends at the highest level of the Christian church.

In 1993 he founded the Happy Children Foundation, with the aim of rehabilitating street children. The foundation cared for 6,300 children in 17 homes throughout the country, from 1993 to 2002.

On November 29, 2000, an anonymous complaint in the Morón Juvenile Court accused Grassi of corruption of minors. The case remained inactive until October 23, 2002, when Telenoche Investiga, on Channel 13 in Argentina, broadcast a program in which Grassi was denounced for sexually abusing five children between the ages of 11 and 17, with a person with covered face and assumed name: “Gabriel.”

Grassi's trial, one of the longest in Argentine history, began on August 20, 2008 and lasted nine months with the testimony of 130 witnesses. On June 9, 2009, he was found guilty of two acts of aggravated sexual abuse and corruption of minors in the “Gabriel” case, and was exonerated of 15 other charges of abuse of “Luis” and “Ezequiel.” He was sentenced to 15 years in prison but allowed to remain free while he appealed.

In 2003 “Gabriel” was warned that he could not make it to the trial alive and in February 2003 three armed men beat him and forced him to sign several resignation documents, after cutting him with a knife and leaving a rifle bullet on him.

On June 8, 2006, Estela de Carlotto said on Page 12 “I call on the Church, because I am Catholic, to Monsignor Bergoglio, who has this monster (Por Grassi) within his parish, within his place of the doctrine of Christ, so that he also takes serious and forceful measures. Because this man has to receive not only social condemnation, which he already has, but also that of the Argentine Church to which he belongs and disgraces," he remarked. The mention of Bergoglio was not gratuitous either: the cardinal was Grassi's confessor and a permanent visitor to the Happy Children Foundation and where the abuses would have been committed.

On March 9, 2012, Luis Eichhorn, the Bishop of Morón, wrote to the Tribunal of Morón, asking it to authorize the transfer of Grassi back to the Diocese of Morón (Grassi had been living somewhere in the diocese of San Justo) . Eichhorn specifically requested that Grassi be given permission to live in the city of Hurlingham, in La Blanquita, in a house with a pool and a large park, located on the same block as the headquarters of the Happy Children Foundation, where he had sexually abused of Gabriel. On March 10, 2012, the Court granted the Bishop what he requested.

Bergoglio, that friend of the soul

Throughout the criminal process Grassi maintained that many bishops supported him, especially Cardinal Bergoglio, of whom he said: “he never let go of my hand [Bergoglio], he is at my side as always.” Bergoglio, a long-time public supporter of the Happy Children Foundation, which had homes in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, issued few words of support for Grassi after his arrest.

In 2006, Veintitrés magazine interviewed Bergolgio, who said that “Justice will rule” Grassi's innocence “despite the fact that there is a media campaign to harm him.” In August 2008, a spokesperson for the Argentine Episcopal Conference, headed by Cardinal Bergoglio, said that Bergoglio's support that Grassi claimed to enjoy was “an assertion that is his responsibility.” The episcopal spokesperson added that the bishops “are respectful of the actions of Justice,” and pointed out “the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.”

Following Grassi's conviction in June 2009, Bergoglio secretly ordered an extensive critical study of the prosecution of Grassi and the three original plaintiffs. In his position as president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Bergoglio entrusted the study of Marcelo Sancinetti, a high-profile jurist, with the preparation of two exculpatory books on Grassi. Sancinetti began a private investigation to carry it out.

The book that resulted from the investigation strongly affirms Grassi's innocence; According to an article in Página/12, the book even denied the prevalence of sexual abuse. According to records, the book was sent to the judges who had not yet ruled on the appeal presented by Grassi's defense. The first volume, of 423 pages, delegitimized the accusations of “Ezequiel”, from which Grassi was freed. The second volume, 646 pages, attacked the credibility of “Gabriel,” of whose sexual abuse Grassi was convicted. By the spring of 2013, a third volume had already been produced and a fourth and final volume was expected.

The reinvestigation, commissioned by the bishops, into the falsity of the accusations against Grassi, was revealed by Juan Pablo Gallego, the lawyer for the Monitoring Committee of the International Conventions on the Rights of the Child, who had represented the plaintiffs during the trial. Gallego described the study as “scandalous lobbying and pressure action on Justice,” and denounced the bishops for “further hindering a process in which the condemned priest Grassi is scandalously kept in an unthinkable situation of unrestricted freedom.”

Grassi remained free during the appeal process until, in September 2013, the Provincial Court rejected his second appeal and the Morón Criminal Court finally ordered him to serve his sentence.

Today: César Grassi is still imprisoned giving Mass in prison, Bergolio became Pope and is today known worldwide as “Francisco”.

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From Grassi to Acevedo, the Argentinian Church functions as an Omertá that covers up the crimes of the paedophile and criminal “brothers”. Pope implicated.

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