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Eugene

(62,782 posts) Mon Dec 24, 2018, 05:33 PM Dec 2018

Fake Catholic priest unmasked in Spain after 18 years

Source: BBC

Fake Catholic priest unmasked in Spain after 18 years

24 December 2018

A man who pretended to be a priest for more than 18 years has been dismissed by the Catholic Church in Spain.

Miguel Angel Ibarra carried out weddings and baptisms, first in Colombia and then in southern Spain, despite having never been ordained.

Those ceremonies will still be recognised, the Church says, but not his communions or the confessions he heard.

He was found to be an impostor after a complaint was filed in Colombia.

The complainant alleged Mr Ibarra had forged his documents.

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Fake Catholic priest unmasked in Spain after 18 years (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP

so ya cant tell the difference between a fake one and real one xcept for the paperwork lol. msongs Dec 2018 #1

It's like the difference edhopper Dec 2018 #2

What? No thunderbolts from heaven? Pope George Ringo II Dec 2018 #3

A US fake priest: Father John Corapi Bretton Garcia Dec 2018 #4

Wiki Bretton Garcia Dec 2018 #5

msongs

(70,287 posts)

1. so ya cant tell the difference between a fake one and real one xcept for the paperwork lol.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2018, 05:35 PM

Dec 2018

edhopper

(35,064 posts)

2. It's like the difference

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2018, 11:13 PM

Dec 2018

between a real psychic and a fake one.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)

3. What? No thunderbolts from heaven?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2018, 11:54 PM

Dec 2018

Aren't there supposed to be thunderbolts from heaven?

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

4. A US fake priest: Father John Corapi

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 09:19 AM

Dec 2018

A former Las Vegas accountant, who declared himself a priest. And started appearing on right wing Catholic radio, EWTN. Eventually accepted by ... Opus Dei?!

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

5. Wiki

Reply to Bretton Garcia (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 09:20 AM

Dec 2018

Wiki says:

He had been accepted into the Green Berets, but had an injury. Allegedly accepted into a priestly order, he was removed from ministry for misbehaviour, c. 2011, and resigned from the priesthood.

He had attended a university in Spain famous for training Opus Dei and other operatives for Spanish fascists.

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