After six pontifical interventions, dissolution seems inevitable
🔶 Introduction
The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), founded in Argentina in 1984, has expanded rapidly throughout the world. However, behind this façade of missionary dynamism, numerous testimonies denounce abuses of power, spiritual manipulation, doctrinal rigidity and a sectarian structure that is difficult to reform.
The most striking fact: the Holy See has already appointed six pontifical commissioners to intervene the institute. None of them managed to bring about structural change.
What real alternatives are left now for the Vatican?
📈 An artificial growth: “little flags on the map”
One of the keys to the growth of the IVE is its willingness to send staff anywhere in the world, even at the cost of the physical and mental health of its members. This attitude has been celebrated by many bishops in need of vocations, but it has also generated serious consequences.
“No matter how precarious the training or emotional maturity: you have to be present on all continents.”
This seems to be the unwritten internal logic of the IVE.
This phenomenon has been compared to a game strategy of T.E.G. (RISK), where the objective is to multiply “little flags” on the world map, without true pastoral discernment or adequate human preparation.
⚠️ Six pontifical commissioners/delegates: an unprecedented event
In the recent history of the Church, very few institutes have had to deal with more than one pontifical commissioner. The IVE has had six. This is no longer a sign of correction, but a confirmation of the failure of any attempt at internal reform.
Each commissioner has arrived with full authority, sent directly by the Holy See. Each has been confronted with resistance, dissimulation, duplicity, disobedience and manipulation. The conclusion seems clear: the IVE does not want to and cannot change.
🛠️ What can the Vatican do now?
✅ 1. Canonical Dissolution of the Institute
- Serious institutional damage.
- Inability to reform.
- Loss of the evangelical sense.
❌ 2. Prohibition of new mimetic foundations
- Moratorium of at least 5 years.
- Supervision of foundational activities.
- Control of donations in the diaspora.
🚡 3. Pontifical Center for Reconciliation
- Spiritual and psychological accompaniment.
- Academic validation.
- Vocational discernment.
- Legal and pastoral support.
⚠️ The most delicate problem: non-reintegrable priests
Many priests trained by the IVE cannot be easily integrated into ordinary ecclesial life. After years of closed indoctrination, absolutist obedience and a Manichean vision of the world, many of them do not recognize any authority other than that of the institute or its internal ideology.
They often regard those who criticize the IVE as “instruments of the devil,” and see all correction as persecution.
✉️ 1. Clerical State without incardination
- They remain as priests, but without official missions.
- They are not incardinated.
- They live on the margins.
Advantages: it gives time for personal discernment.
Risks: parallel communities, “refoundations” and everything starts again.
✉️ 2. Dispensation from the clerical state
- Pastoral outing for those who cannot integrate.
- It releases promises and allows lay life.
- Requested or proposed by ecclesial authority.
✉️ 3. Itineraries of deep conversion
- Process accompanied by inner healing.
- Guided by people outside the IVE.
- With psychological help and vocational rediscovery.
👩👧 And what will happen to SSVMs?
The Servants of the Lord and of the Virgin of Matará, the female branch of the IVE, share the same deviations. They replicate a culture of blind obedience, affective isolation and total clerical dependence.
❌ What is likely to happen:
- Dissolution of the female branch.
- Prohibition of name, habit and charisma.
- Accompaniment for those who want to continue their vocation.
🚡 Necessary measures:
- Shelters.
- Academic validation.
- Psychological support.
- Free vocational discernment.
Many sisters have offered their lives sincerely, but they were deformed by a diseased structure. The Church has the duty to take care of them.
🗺️ Conclusion: Closing with Truth and Mercy
The IVE is no longer in crisis: it is an irreformable structure, which has caused spiritual, human and ecclesial damage. Dissolution is not a punishment, but an act of evangelical justice and pastoral protection.
Closing the abortion means:
- Protect the faithful.
- Reparations to the victims.
- Release members in good faith.
- Prevent the sectarian model from being perpetuated.
Truth and mercy are not opposed. They need each other to heal and rebuild.
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