{"id":45890,"date":"2025-03-04T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=45890"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:07:18","slug":"gaztelueta-case-ruling-professor-expelled-from-opus-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/sentencia-del-caso-gaztelueta-el-profesor-es-expulsado-del-opus-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaztelueta case ruling: professor expelled from Opus Dei"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Gaztelueta case, a complex and lengthy judicial process<\/a>has recently registered a new event. On March 3, a religious information portal leaked the sentence handed down by Msgr. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Satu\u00e9 against Professor Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez. The judge considered the accusations proven and decreed in his sentence the expulsion of the numerary from the Prelature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One aspect that has attracted attention is that the document is dated December 17, but was not communicated to the parties until almost three months later due to \"other non-delegable and unpostponable obligations\" of the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legal sources consulted by Omnes have expressed their surprise at the decision of Msgr. Satu\u00e9, given that, although he was commissioned by the Vatican to thoroughly investigate the evidence in the case, \"he has not carried out any new investigation. He has simply reproduced the sentence of the Spanish Supreme Court, which at the time reduced the professor's sentence from 11 to 2 years in prison\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n It should be recalled that Judge Marchena, who instructed the case in the Supreme Court, pointed out that the legislation did not allow him to invalidate the evidence previously considered by the court of the Basque Country. However, he criticized the fact that the trial judge gave full credibility to the prosecution's experts without taking into account those of the defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the sentence leaked to the press yesterday, Msgr. Satu\u00e9 determines that the accusations have been proven and orders the expulsion of the numerary from the Prelature. Despite having been given full powers to carry out a new investigation, the judge has been criticized for not having considered numerous pieces of evidence presented by the defense. Among these are the refusal to admit the reports of the defense's experts, the exclusion of the polygraph test taken by the accused, and the inadmissibility of the exhaustive innocence verification report<\/a> prepared by five jurists. The latter document was mentioned in the judgment without any justification for its exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, the resolution does not include the copy of the initial investigation conducted by the Vatican under the direction of Silverio Nieto, which has never been made public and is considered key to the defense. Neither were Nieto's testimonies admitted, nor the letter of Cardinal Ladaria, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and highest authority of the body responsible for the ecclesiastical investigation in 2015. Likewise, the request for access to Cuatrecasas' medical records, requested to the Department of Health of the Basque Country, was rejected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the sources consulted, \"the judge has not conducted any new investigation, but has determined what evidence can be taken into account without offering a public justification for his decisions\".<\/p>\n\n\n\nLegal assessments of the judgment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Questions on the new ruling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lawsuit against Judge Satu\u00e9<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n