WENDELL TALIBONG
News contributor
DIPOLOG CITY—Bishop Jose Manguiran has expelled and disallowed one of his priests from performing his ministerial duties due to alleged abuses and misconduct while serving at the Epiphany Church, in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
Manguiran identified in an interview with DxDD-AM his priest as Fr. Reynaldo Pardillada, a native of this city.
At the moment, Manguiran said he has sanctioned Pardillada and restricted him to the church convent.
Pardillada’s expulsion was first relayed by KPSC Radio Manila in Southern California to Radio Veritas last June, after the Archdiocese of Newark suspended the priest from his ministry on a complaint from a churchgoer, who was later known as a resident of Dipolog also.
The 32-year old woman claimed she and Pardillada had an affair and that on two occasions she alleged she was forced by the priest to have an abortion and that recently she had a miscarriage from their supposedly secret relationship.
Manguiran said he was embarrassed with what happened and wrote the Archbishop of Newark asking for apology because of the scandal.
He added Pardillada disgraced not only the other clergies of Dipolog but also in their local church.
The prelate added that Pardillada is now living in his parents house in Dipolog City after he was expelled by the archdiocese of Mewark, NJ.
In was learned that Pardillada was assigned for almost two years as formator of Saint Mary’s Theologate Seminary in Ozamiz City before he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has released a copy of the Manual for Parish Priests, which stresses that a concubinary cleric, outside the case dealt with in Canon 1394, and a cleric who remains in another external sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with scandal, should be punished with suspension and, if he persists in such an offense after having been admonished, other penalties can be added gradually even the dismissal from the clerical state.
DIPOLOG CITY—Bishop Jose Manguiran has expelled and disallowed one of his priests from performing his ministerial duties due to alleged abuses and misconduct while serving at the Epiphany Church, in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
Manguiran identified in an interview with DxDD-AM his priest as Fr. Reynaldo Pardillada, a native of this city.
At the moment, Manguiran said he has sanctioned Pardillada and restricted him to the church convent.
Pardillada’s expulsion was first relayed by KPSC Radio Manila in Southern California to Radio Veritas last June, after the Archdiocese of Newark suspended the priest from his ministry on a complaint from a churchgoer, who was later known as a resident of Dipolog also.
The 32-year old woman claimed she and Pardillada had an affair and that on two occasions she alleged she was forced by the priest to have an abortion and that recently she had a miscarriage from their supposedly secret relationship.
Manguiran said he was embarrassed with what happened and wrote the Archbishop of Newark asking for apology because of the scandal.
He added Pardillada disgraced not only the other clergies of Dipolog but also in their local church.
The prelate added that Pardillada is now living in his parents house in Dipolog City after he was expelled by the archdiocese of Mewark, NJ.
In was learned that Pardillada was assigned for almost two years as formator of Saint Mary’s Theologate Seminary in Ozamiz City before he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has released a copy of the Manual for Parish Priests, which stresses that a concubinary cleric, outside the case dealt with in Canon 1394, and a cleric who remains in another external sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with scandal, should be punished with suspension and, if he persists in such an offense after having been admonished, other penalties can be added gradually even the dismissal from the clerical state.