Investigation on Don Samuele Marelli, former director of the Milanese Oratori Foundation: « Sexual abuse on boys »
In May of last year, the place of vicar of the religious community John Paul II of Seregno had left the place of religious community for a period of « discernment ». Dossier in the Prosecutor and investigation in the diocese
The latest official news, communicated last spring from the priests to the faithful during Mass, spoke of the need to A period of « discernment »considered « appropriate », for the purpose of « encourage psycho-physical recovery». It was May 2024, but in reality of Don Samuele Marelli, 49 years old, Already director In the past of the Foundation of Milanese oratoriesand in that era Vicar of the religious community Giovanni Paolo II of Seregno (Monza)as well as responsible for the relative youth pastoral Which includes six parishes, there was no longer any news since the first months of the same year, when, always according to what he reported, he had himself to ask for the « detachment ».
Suddenly disappeared from the parish environment in a curtain of silence. Leaving behind a certain disbelief and a void filled progressively by the whispered chatter of the first months, and subsequently from indiscretions increasingly dense and insistent on « unsuitable behaviors » who have translated into serious accusations against the religious of sexual abuse against boys who attended the oratory. News that, in recent months, has been circulating in the parish environment of the Brianza town, and which now awaits the first response of the bodies of justice, at least those of the Curia. And in the meantime, pending the ruling of the Lombard ecclesiastical court, which should be filed shortly, The Monza prosecutor’s office is also conducting its investigations after opening a file covered, at present, with the utmost investigative reserve.
After more than a year of absence from Seregno (and after the previous 7, spent in the town of Brianzola), the gossip therefore leave the place to real reasons for Don Samuele’s removal: the charismatic, brilliant, effective communicator priest inserted in the other Lombard ecclesiastical spheres, so much so that it has been the number one of the FOM, the diocesan foundation responsible for the Milanese speakers and, precisely for that role to be found sitting to the left of Pope Francis on the stage of the San Siro stadium, At the height of the Milanese visit of the Pontiff of March 25, 2017.
This is the priest who accompanied the boys to the pool, to the summer camps by the seaand who exercised an undeniable ascending on them. But also the one on which voices and suspicions have thickened for alleged misunderstandingsout of place, ostentation of the inadequate body. The information on the number of potential victims, on their age, and on the type of conduct exercised by the priest is still very fragmented.
It emerged, however, that to show the first signs of discomfort, during 2023, they would be Some guys, all males, habitual visitors of the oratory in Seregnoa citizen of strong ecclesiastical tradition that collects many teenagers around the environment of the parishes.
A malaise that has not escaped the educators who operated among young people, and which would lead to the presentation of a exposed to the authorities and to the report of the case at the Curia. From that moment, that is, immediately, according to what was possible to reconstructthe positions were removed from Don Samuele: Suspension from any pastoral activity (currently is transferred to « other diocesan structure », as already reported last year). Ecclesiastical jurisdiction has started the so -called « previa investigation », As the preliminary investigation in canon law is defined, during which a dozen people would have been listened to, especially young people.
According to what he learned from Courier, The canonical process has practically completed its process, And it is close to issuing its verdict. A first communication of the entire story, however, has already been made to the families involved, to some educators, and to the pastoral council of the Seregnese religious community, in which, outside of official communications, The facts disputed to Don Samuele are defined as « very serious » terms.
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