CNA Staff, Jun 27, 2024 / 17:15 pm
A Belgian civil court has fined two Catholic prelates after they denied a woman entry into a diaconate formation program.
According to the Belgian newspaper De Morgen, the woman, Veer Dusauchoit, asked the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels to register for training as a deacon in June 2023 and again in October 2023.
Dusauchoit made her first request to Cardinal Jozef De Kesel and her second to Archbishop Luc Terlinden after De Kesel’s 2023 resignation at age 76. Both times, her request to join the four-year diaconal training program was denied.
The two prelates will have to pay 1,500 euro (about $1,605) each, the court ordered.