At about 8 a.m. on Aug. 29, criminals entered the Saints of America parish on Mexico City’s south side and tied up the parish priest and a group of seminarians.
The archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, met with the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, hours after the bishop had been abducted by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship during the early hours of August 19.
The national police of Nicaragua's Ortega regime said that the bishop was seized to prevent "destabilizing and provocative activities.”
Nicaraguan police forced their way into the residence of Bishop Rolando Álvarez Friday morning and abducted the prelate, an outspoken critic of the regime of President Daniel Ortega, who had been held there under house arrest for the last two weeks.
Historian and professor Íñigo Fernández pointed out that shortly after the discovery of America, “the Church in fact began to set limits.”
Father Francisco Torres Ruiz of the Diocese of Plasencia, Spain, said many wonder if an exorcism ritual from 1614 is better than one promulgated by St. John Paul II in 2000.
Ten miners remain trapped in a coal mine in Sabinas, Coahuila state, after a breach during an excavation caused flooding.
Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega recently spoke out about an alleged eucharistic miracle posted on social media.
The priest, shot in the cheek while driving, is reported to be out of danger.
A video circulating on social media shows what appears to be a eucharistic miracle — a consecrated Host exposed for adoration by the faithful seems to “beat” like a heart.
The candles will be lit the night of July 30 as part of the Day of Prayer for Peace called by the Mexican Bishops’ Conference.
Religious leaders have asked that July be a time of prayer for peace in Mexico.
The document comes as the faithful in Mexico prepare to observe a Day of Prayer for Peace in Mexico on July 10.
“There is a wound to heal and there is the strength that the country needs today to build peace,” the bishops, religious superiors, and Jesuit priests said in a joint statement.
Rulings that legitimize abortion by the higher courts in Mexico continue to present significant challenges for the pro-life cause in that country.
For President Alejandro Giammattei, the report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights shows a “methodological error that makes evident an agenda in favor of abortion that exceeds its powers.”
Bishop Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe headed the diocese of San Juan de los Lagos for six years and was recently appointed Archbishop of San Luis Potosí.
"Our Mexico is being spattered in the blood of so many dead and disappeared," the Catholic Church in the country decried, remembering the thousands of victims of organized crime in the country, especially the two recently murdered Jesuit priests.
The "hugs not bullets" policy of the president is ineffective, says Guadalajara archbishop Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega.
Irma and José Gómez were "always willing to help others."