In a letter addressed on September 23, 2026 to all the members of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) and the Servants of the Lord and of the Virgin of Matará (SSVM), the pontifical delegates Clara Echarte Oñate and José Antonio Satué Huerto call for a profound change in the attitude of both congregations towards the abuses committed by their founder, Carlos Miguel Buela.
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Impossible Obedience: Bull, Constitutions, and the Inner Blockage of the IVE
There are phrases that, within a religious institution, say much more than they seem to say.
One of them appears in the document drawn up to establish the position of the Institute of the Incarnate Word and of the Servants of the Lord and of the Virgin of Matará on questions concerning its founder. There it is stated that the members accept and abide by the provisions that the Holy See legitimately adopts, “even if we personally do not share” their content.
Read out of context, the phrase might seem moderate. No one is obliged to immediately understand all the decisions of authority. Religious obedience does not require shutting down one’s intelligence or renouncing all personal opinions. A religious can go through a period of bewilderment, pain, or even incomprehension in the face of an ecclesial decision.
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Two canonical tribunals found Carlos Buela guilty of a sexual crime committed with violence against several people
On September 15, 2026, in Rome, the pontifical delegates of the IVE and of the Servants of the Lord and of Our Lady of Matará held a meeting with the provincial superiors of both institutes and with the heads of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
During that meeting, information was provided on the decisions taken to make public the decision of the special criminal courts that examined Buela’s case in the first instance and on appeal.
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