The dean of the Cathedral of Toledo resigns after authorizing the video clip of C. Tangana and Nathy Peluso: “We have had communication failures”

The dean of the Cathedral of Toledo, Juan Miguel Ferrer, explained that the Cabildo’s mistake about the video clip of C. Tangana and Nathy Peluso was not being present at the recording and do not make “warnings” on some images that they have caused “the scandal of some people”, and that he has presented his resignation as an “elegant” way to “facilitate that everything is solved”.

The dean has attended this Tuesday the military acts of the patron saint of the Civil Guard in Toledo and, at the end, has answered questions from journalists about the controversial video ‘Atheist’ recorded in the Catedral Primada. He has spoken about the discrepancies of opinions between him and the archbishop, the resignation he has submitted, what the Cathedral has charged for the recording and how he is personally. In fact, at the same time the act of the Civil Guard was taking place, the press release from the Archdiocese of Toledo arrived reporting the resignation of the dean, whose mandate – of five years – expired on November 5 and that Ferrer has wanted to advance.

The dean has told journalists that there is “cordiality and harmony” between the archbishop, Francisco Cerro Chaves, and him, but has admitted that there were “communication failures” taking into account the two statements that were released within hours of each other on Friday: that of the dean justifying the recording and that of the archbishop lamenting and asking for forgiveness. “I have to admit that we have had communication failures, but that has been the least. I say the least although it has also collaborated, perhaps, to make things more complicated,” said the dean, who has wished that now return to “normal after all this painful incident”.

Has specified that the Cathedral has collected 15,000 euros for the recording of the video clip and in this sense he has said that money is always charged when the recording has a commercial purpose, and “for years” that amount goes to social works of the Cathedral (as in this case) or to a specific purpose cultural if so specified. Juan Miguel Ferrer has said that he does not retract the initial statement that he released last Friday, because “what we were trying to say was true and what we were explaining were the reasons why permission was given”, but he has assumed the “error” that when it was recorded “there was no one to represent us and warnings could not be made” about some “things” that later “have caused scandal for some people.”

“Well, this should have been avoided, it was a failure”, stressed the dean who has acknowledged that personally he has not affected “so much” the controversy, although “nobody likes to be turned green”, but has hurt for his parents, who are elderly. “I admit all criticism and I recognize that I can make mistakes and even do wrong, I hope without meaning to, but when they correct me I also like to be corrected with a little charity and respect. But hey, I said, this is water for me last time, the criticisms they have made me. What I want now is for everyone to be serene, live in peace, there are no grudges or tensions between one and the other, “he said.

He added that, in his opinion, what all people of good will seek, from music or from prayer, it is “doing good to people” and has reflected: “I hope that after all this pain and this controversy we will all strive, every day more, I the first, to work to do good for each other.” He has also made it clear that “normally” this type of video recordings in the Cathedral are not communicated to the archbishop, something that “could be another failure”, and in this sense he has supported what the archbishop has proposed to improve the protocols for ” always ask for the approval of the Archdiocese for this type of act that is out of the ordinary “.

Because the Cathedral has a “very precise” regulation, for example, for the concerts inside, but for the recording of video clips “we did not have a regulation, except the internal one of the Cabildo, which has been done a bit on the fly”, something that “evidently has not played in favor our”. Faced with all this situation, and knowing that there was little left to finish his mandate, the dean has made the decision to resign – which will be effective this Saturday, October 16 – because it has seemed “an elegant way to facilitate that everything is solved” and a way of not continuing to “stretch” the controversy, he said. On several occasions in his statements to journalists Juan Miguel Ferrer, who will continue to be canon and professor, among other responsibilities, has described the situation as “painful” and has said about this “crisis” that “it could have been avoided.