The Archbishop of Toledo and Primado de España, Mons. Francisco Cerro Chaves, sent a letter to his priests after the arrest of Fr. Carlos Loriente and encouraged them to review their lives, to ask for help if they have any difficulty and remember that “the enemy takes advantage of loneliness” to wrap them.
On September 23, the Archbishopric of Toledo confirmed the arrest on Sunday of the Priest and Canon of the Cathedral, which was also a few years Vicar Episcopal for the clergy, for possession of narcotic substances. After this he has been separated from his ministry in a precautionary way.
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He Spanish newspaper ABC He informed that the Court of Instruction number 5 of Torremolinos in Malaga, where the priest was arrested, agreed on September 24 the provisional freedom of Father Loriente, who has received his right not to declare and that he is investigated for an alleged crime against public health related to substances that cause serious damage.
After admitting that “we are going through a very painful situation in our diocese as a result” of what happened with Father Loriente, the Archbishop of Toledo encouraged his priests to leave “aside everything that separates us” from the Lord and encouraged them to “ask for help if you find yourself in a difficulty because the enemy takes advantage of the loneliness and isolation to wrap us.”
Given this situation, Mons. Cerro invited to his priests to live “these moments with a spirit of faith, from the truth and with entrails of mercy. That this pain is the opportunity to welcome the call to the conversion that the Lord makes to each one and our diocese.”
“Truly none are free of falling and that is why we have to help us live in holiness, with renewed fervor, our priesthood, having as a center Jesus Christ,” he said and urged: “Let’s review our lives in the light of the Lord.”
After encouraging the faithful to sustain “from the supernatural vision that drives us to prayer, the sacrifice and intercession,” the prelate asked the priests to pray together, also by Fr. Carlos Loriente and his family.
“For the Lord to accompany and sustain him right now and be present in his life from truth and mercy. Let’s not forget to entrust his family,” he concluded.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.