The Archbishop of Granada delivers the judge requested documentation – Infovaticana

The Archbishopric has confirmed in a statement that can be read below. Judge Martinez took three days to deliver the canonical record for sexual abuse.

On Wednesday and Thursday last week (27 and 28 May), the Archbishop of Granada, Javier Martinez was in Córdoba and Madrid managing various matters relating to his ministry in the diocese. Friday 29 went to the agreed time with court reporters, and was personally served the order of the Court of Instruction No. 4, which was required to provide certain documentation related to the alleged crimes of sexual violence attributed to some priests and laity of the diocese.

The archbishop has been cooperating with the judicial authorities since news of the denunciation of these events had, having urged even the complainant, being an adult, to submit the corresponding report to civil authorities. However, since the canonical procedure in the hands of the Holy See, and being well protected documents by an Agreement of international standing, it made him Archbishop impossible to dispose at its discretion of the requested documents without violating both the existing legal system as the discipline of the Church. So it was made known to the court after his first request for these documents. That request was notified on May 14, and has now been settled in the request submitted on Friday, 29.

As soon as the archbishop was aware of these requirements, he moved notifications judge the Congregation for the Doctrine Faith, only competent ecclesiastical instance in the subject, in a letter dated May 28 authorized the archbishop to deliver the requested documents to the judge, “in order that the civilian judicial authorities to clarify the alleged criminal acts”.

Consequently, the archbishop has sent this morning to the court the requested documentation, presenting it before the police court. The communication to the court, in accordance with applicable law and with the indications of the competent authority of the Church, you have passed the caution and reserves that protect those documents, being documented work in Church circles and answers the proper canonical rules of this area.