In a recent interview with ‘TardeAR’, a woman recounted her experience with the excommunicated bishop Pablo de Rojas and Father José Ceacero, who tried to buy her home in Palencia by paying black money. Carmen, the owner of the property, decided to tell her story to warn about the fraudulent practices of these religious people.
In 2021, Carmen put a house for sale located in a town in the province of Palencia through the Idealista portal. “It was a special house, oriented more towards creating a business than a family,” she explained. It was then that she received the interest of Bishop Rojas and Father Ceacero, who visited the property along with two other people, including a driver who she waited outside.
“They saw the house and they liked it. They told me that they wanted to build a priestly house for older priests,” Carmen narrated. According to her story, the religious men mentioned having a school in Bilbao and belonging to a pre-conciliar order. After her visit, they contacted her on WhatsApp with a mysterious tone, promising a very interesting proposal.
A few days later, the clerics proposed buying the house, valued at 120,000 euros, with a payment in black money and in deferred installments. “They lowered it for us and also everything they offered us was in B,” Carmen explained. Bishop Rojas justified that all the money they handled came from donations.
Carmen rejected the offer immediately, explaining: “It was going to complicate our lives.” The form of payment they proposed, part of the payment in black and the rest in deferred amounts, was neither legal nor convenient for her.
This is not the first time that the name of Bishop Pablo de Rojas appears associated with financial controversies. According to Carmen, a large part of Rojas’ income comes from “donations from our faithful” requested by social networks and from state subsidies that his association and foundation receive. His empire, made up of several secret headquarters, is largely sustained by these sources of financing and “state subsidies.”
