Bishop Zanchetta released on parole
September 29, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: An Argentine court released Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta on parole, three years after his conviction on charges of sexually abusing seminarians. The prelate spent most of his prison sentence on house arrest in a monastery.
After local priests accused Bishop Zanchetta of financial mismanagement, abuse of power, and the sexual abuse of seminarians, Bishop Zanchetta resigned as bishop of Orán in August 2017. In December of that year, Pope Francis appointed Zanchetta the assessor of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which manages the Holy See’s real estate and movable assets. (For more information, see the Catholic World News series, “The Zanchetta Affair.”)
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Nothing will be able to reform and purify the Church if the members of the hierarchy are morally corrupt or quietly accept moral corruption in their own ranks. And it doesn't get more corrupt than a homosexual Bishop engaging, whether consensually or not, with candidates to the Priesthood in physical acts of sexual depravity, while the supposed Vicar of Christ (Francis) turned a blind eye. All Cardinals and Bishops who keep silent are responsible for this scandal.
