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Mexican church calls adultery “a sin and a crime”
12:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Religion| mexico · 2 Comments
6 Dec 2006
The Mexican Catholic church is criticizing the Northern state of Chihuahua’s decision to eliminate adultery from its list of punishable crimes in its “Reforma Penal“:
For Bishop Renato Ascencio León, this change “is yet another manifestation that we are straying off the path” and said that “the only thing that this will cause is, if authority does not intervene, that victims take justice into their own hands.”
Personally, I had no idea that adultery was a punishable crime in Mexico. And people will take justice into their own hands whether “authorities” do or not.
Chihuahua’s penal reform, introduced in November, added child pornography and sex tourism to its list of punishable crimes, but eliminated adultery. Sounds like a decent trade-off to me.
Chihuahua’s Attorney General states that adultery was eliminated because it’s “seldom reported” while the church calls it a “serious sin” that should be “punished by the laws of men”.
Via / El Plural
Mexican Archibishop Sued over Molestation Cover-up
4:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Justice| Religion| mexico · Comments Off
21 Sep 2006
The Latin Americanist reported yesterday on a bombshell story: Mexico’s Archbishop, Norberto Rivera, is being sued for allegedly covering up for a priest who was molesting a former altar boy, along with L.A.’s Cardinal Mahoney. The Catholic News Service tells us more about this scandal:
A Mexican man is suing the cardinals of Mexico City and Los Angeles, claiming the cardinals covered up crimes of a priest accused of sexually abusing boys on both sides of the border.In a civil suit filed in California, the man accused Cardinals Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles and Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City of negligence, claiming they aided the flight of Father Nicolas Aguilar Rivera and that they were partially responsible for sexual battery due to their negligence.
Spokesmen for both cardinals denied the charges.
In a Los Angeles court Sept. 19, Joaquin Aguilar Mendez of Mexico City filed the suit against the cardinals and the Diocese of Tehuacan, Mexico, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Aguilar alleged the cardinals transferred a Mexican priest to the United States in 1987 despite knowing that he had a record of molesting minors in Mexico. Cardinal Rivera headed the Diocese of Tehuacan at the time.
At a Sept. 20 press conference in Mexico City, Aguilar said the cardinals also helped Father Aguilar flee Los Angeles and return to Mexico, where Aguilar claims the priest raped him in 1994 when he was a 13-year-old altar boy.
Rivera was one of the myriad priests that were candidates to succeed Pope John Paul II.
Via / The Latin Americanist and Catholic Online
Holy calling card gets you blessed by Mexican priest
6:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing| Religion| mexico · 9 Comments
23 May 2006
File this under: tacky marketing ploys. I’m usually not shocked by the sketchy marketing tactics that some companies use to promote their products to the Latino market. After all, I am in the business, so I’ve seen my share of lame campaigns, promotions, slogans, etc. But when I read about the Mexican Catholic Church getting kickbacks from a calling card company for use of the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe…I wanted to be amused but I just felt…ick.
The Catholic Church in Mexico is set to receive a cash bonanza from a U.S. company planning to sell prepaid phone cards with a printed image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s most revered religious symbol.“We are not selling blessings, we are promoting benefactors,” said Mexican Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce, whose recorded voice will bless customers when they use the $3 and $5 cards to place long-distance or cell-phone calls.
Talk about cheapening one’s supposedly deeply held beliefs. I’m no Catholic, but this makes me sick.
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