
Archbishop Gänswein to Costa Rica? Report of Benedict’s Secretary Becoming Nuncio is ‘Speculation,’ Vatican Sources Say
Archbishop Gänswein’s future role has been the subject of rumor and gossip across Rome and the Church in Germany for many days.
Archbishop Gänswein’s future role has been the subject of rumor and gossip across Rome and the Church in Germany for many days.
In August 2022, a court ruled against the Costa Rican Bishops’ Conference, San José Archbishop José Rafael Quirós, and the Temporal Assets of the Archdiocese of San José for covering up Lizano’s sexual abuse.
Father Guillén, 52, said that he responded to God’s call when he was 24.
The court also ordered that the archdiocese pay the costs of the trial: 10.6 million colones, about $16,000.
The sisters of the order founded by St. Teresa of Calcutta were welcomed at a parish in the town of Cañas.
The sisters were welcomed to the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia in neighboring Costa Rica by Bishop Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora.
The diocese said that while it has closed the monastery and thus ended its ecclesial mission, it is aware that the monastery was also established as a civil association enrolled in the Civil Registry and so “it belongs to them to determine its future as a civil association.”
The Costa Rican bishops’ conference has been one of those that has responded most harshly against the Traditional Latin Mass after the publication of Traditionis custodes.
In a January 9, 2018 decision, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights ruled that Costa Rica must legalize gay marriage.
Pro-life groups charged that the technical norm being considered could be a window to allow abortion on demand.
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