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null / Credit: CathopicACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as "blunders," and that the Jesuits covered it up.A nephew of Pedrajas found the diary and contacted the Society of Jesus in Bolivia to file a complaint, and then went to the Spanish prosecutor s office, which dismissed the case for having passed the statute of limitations, El Pais reported.The journalistic investigation also compiled testimonies from alleged victims and relatives.According to a May 9 report by El País, the priest disclosed the alleged abuses to at least seven provincial superiors and some 10 Bolivian and Spanish clergy members.The Bolivian state attorney general s office announced on Monday that it will investigate the incidents linked
Lybicheva Nina, 72, along with her grandchildren receives food items during a distribution to about 3,000 people by the local branch of Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic charity organization, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 27, 2022. / Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, May 10, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).Pope Francis on Thursday will meet with delegates of the Vatican s main charitable organization six months after he dismissed its top leaders in what the group s ousted general secretary now calls a "brutal power grab."Members of the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of more than 160 Catholic charities operating in 200 countries and territories, have come to Vatican City this week to elect a new president and general secretary.Adding to the drama surrounding the body s deliberations are newly aired criticisms by two of its former leaders of the pope s November decree removing the organization s administration. A press release issu
Plenary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. / Credit: CEEACI Prensa Staff, May 11, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).The Spanish Bishops Conference (CEE) criticized the May 9 ruling by the country s constitutional court (TC) that upheld abortion as a right, thus, it said, making the human person developing in the womb "a true undocumented person."The executive commission of the CEE said in a statement that it deplores that the TC affirmed "that there are human beings who do not have rights" by supporting "an ideological, unscientific law that promotes inequality."The prelates reasoned that "the right to abortion could only be affirmed in the case that the embryo or fetus were nothing; but the unborn child is not a thing, he is a human being."The bishops further stated that "classifying the voluntary elimination of the life of an innocent human being as a right is always morally wrong."Spain and other countries use the euphemism "voluntary in
Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States stand in line to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the early morning hours after crossing into Arizona from Mexico on May 10, 2023, in Yuma, Arizona. / Credit: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., May 10, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).Title 42, the public health law that for the last three years has limited immigration into the United States, is set to expire on Thursday, May 11.In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked Title 42 of a 1944 public health law to curb the inflow of migrants into the U.S. during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.Under Title 42, border authorities were authorized to expel large numbers of migrants attempting to cross the border. At the time, the administration reasoned this was a necessary precaution to slow COVID s spread.Despite Title 42 s restrictions, the southern border saw a record surge in illegal immigration after the Biden administration cut border enforcement resources. Amid this .