Abusos IVE SSVM

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  • Impossible Obedience: Bull, Constitutions, and the Inner Blockage of the IVE

    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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  • IVE’s response to the Holy See: “Our position on questions concerning the Founder”

    IVE’s response to the Holy See: “Our position on questions concerning the Founder”

    The Institute of the Incarnate Word has released this statement in response to the decision taken this week by the Holy See regarding the Institute, the Servants and the memory of its founder, Father Carlos Buela. We publish the full text below.

    We absolutely reject all types of abuse

    We, the Major Superiors of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, interpreting the common sentiment of the members of the Institute, profess and assume in its entirety the moral doctrine of the Church and, consequently, condemn and reject without any ambiguity all forms of abuse, sexual abuse, manipulation, violence, harassment or disorderly sexual conduct, especially when it is carried out by those who are constituted in authority and against persons entrusted to their care or who are in a situation of special vulnerability.

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  • Two canonical tribunals found Carlos Buela guilty of a sexual crime committed with violence against several people

    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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  • Rome takes control of the IVE’s communications: an extraordinary measure

    Rome takes control of the IVE’s communications: an extraordinary measure

    The pontifical intervention of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) has just entered a particularly significant phase. The Pontifical Delegate, Msgr. José Antonio Satué, Bishop of Malaga, has decided to replace the official communication infrastructure of the Institute.

    The old ive.org site is no longer the official website of the IVE. In its place, the Delegate has created verboencarnado.org, which becomes, in his own words, the “only official website” of the Institute.

    At the same time, the old @ive.org accounts will be replaced by new @verboencarnado.org addresses, using Google technology (Gmail) and with the technical intervention of the computer scientist of the Diocese of Malaga.

    We are not, therefore, facing a simple change of ownership.

    The pontifical authority is creating a communications infrastructure that is no longer technically dependent on the internal structure of the IVE.

    And the official explanation of why it has been necessary to do so is extraordinary.

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