Two Priests in active ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago were arrested on Labor Day by police as they were caught engaged in homosexual acts in a car parked "in full view of the public passing by" along the most popular tourist avenue in Miami Beach, Florida.
One of the priests, 39-year-old Reverend Diego Berrío Barrera, S.T.L., J.C.L. was just confirmed in his office as a Judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Chicago by Cardinal Cupich.
The other, Reverend Edwin Cortez, is an extern Priest from the Diocese of Soacha in Columbia.
Both men were charged with misdemeanor counts of lewd conduct, while Cortez was also charged with one misdemeanor count of indecent exposure.
Berrío holds is a Judge of the Tribunal; Pastor of the Misión San Juan Diego of Arlington Heights, Illinois; and Spiritual Director and Coordinator of the Office for Externs and International Priests ad interim for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Hailing from Columbia, Berrío came to Chicago via the scandal-ridden Casa Jesus, shut down in 2016 over multiple incidents of homosexual misconduct, including its own longtime Rector, Octavio Munoz, arresed for male teen porn found on his laptop.
Casa Jesus was set up in 1987 under Cardinal Joseph Bernardin with the specific aim of importing seminarians from Latin America to the United States.
Berrío studied philosophy at the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Medellín, obtained a Master of Divinity and a Licentiate in Sacramental Theology and Liturgy from the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary of Chicago, followed by a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has asserted that . Cardinal Cupich is "blinded by his pro-gay ideology."
Was he blind sided or did he turn a blind eye
to the fact that he appointed a sodomite to these many ministries in the Archdiocese?
We do not as yet know, since the Cardinal has not commented on this story.
But perhaps His Eminence is busy helping fish plastic floating in Lake Michigan or escorting illegal immigrants from our southern border into Illinois...the really important stuff of Church ministry and governance!
More and more, it seems that His Eminence owes Archbishop Vigano and the Catholic faithful of Chicago an explanation and an apology.
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