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by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Activism, Argentina, human rights, lead, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
When Argentina lost its second most famous citizen Sunday, the praise heaped upon her by Pope Francis marked the latest example of what can be described as a complex and at times tumultuous, but ultimately warm relationship between the two.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic ethos, Catholic media, From the Pope, José María Poirier, News | 0 |
José María Poirier has mixed feelings when he talks about the monthly magazine he runs in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | Argentina, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Following the attempted assassination of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Pope Francis expressed his concern and prayers that his home nation choose to uphold the values of a democracy and avoid the path of violence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Poli, Church in the Americas, drug abuse, drug addiction, lead, News | 0 |
A group of “slum priests” in Argentina has launched a year-long pilgrimage of an image of Our Lady of Lujan, Argentina’s patroness, to raise awareness of the rising drug addiction problem in the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Poverty, President Alberto Fernandez | 0 |
In July, Argentina saw two ministers of the economy step down, and with a yearly inflation rate well over 50 percent, the bishops are asking for real solutions from the political leadership.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Poverty, President Alberto Fernandez | 0 |
In July, Argentina saw two ministers of the economy step down, and with a yearly inflation rate well over 50 percent, the bishops are asking for real solutions from the political leadership.
Read MoreROME – As Pope Francis’s native Argentina sits on the brink of hyperinflation, led by a president and vice presidents at virtual war with one another, the country’s bishops say the people are “starving,” hungry both in body and spirit. “Today our homeland is a hungry, bewildered, worried and wounded […]
Read MoreROME – Saint Josemaria Escriva, founder of the Catholic organization Opus Dei, which emphasizes the dignity of everyday work, once famously told employees in a Spanish university he founded that the dean was no more important than the people who cleaned the classrooms. However noble-sounding that rhetoric may be, according […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | abuse victims, Argentina, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News | 0 |
In 1992, two boys attending minor seminary in Parana, in northeastern Argentina, reported that Father Justo Ilarraz, spiritual director for the seminarians, had sexually abused them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | Argentina, Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta, clerical sexual abuse, Javier Belda Iniesta, News, Pope Francis, The Dispatch | 0 |
Pope Francis has sent the canon lawyer who represented his friend and former colleague in the Argentinian bishops conference, Gustavo Zanchetta (who is now a convicted sex offender serving time in prison), to investigate some […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2022 | Argentina, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
The case of an Argentine bishop currently in prison serving a sentence for abuse took an unexpected turn this week, with Pope Francis sending the prelate’s canon lawyer to investigate the priests and seminarians of the diocese.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis, Poverty | 0 |
Argentina has a poverty rate of 43.8 percent (18 million people) and one in ten citizens “experiences hunger on a daily basis.”
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