Argentina Archives

Marist Brothers: School director in Buenos Aires admits abusing student

The head of a Marist high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has admitted to abusing a student nearly 40 years ago. The order said the victim has not filed a lawsuit and that Brother Angel Duples has not been charged. The case is the latest in a series of church sex-abuse scandals in Pope Francis’s native Argentina.

Clerical abuse scandal hits Argentine president’s school

Pope Francis has spoken over the telephone to a victim who was abused at the Cardenal Newman school, which was launched in Argentina in 1948 by the Christian Brothers, a religious order founded two centuries ago to focus on educating disadvantaged youth. In recent years, it has faced abuse claims at many of the schools it has opened worldwide.

Nun ministering to transgender women gets thumbs-up from Pope

Despite theoretically slowing down over the summer months, Pope Francis remains one of those figures basically incapable of “down time.” Among other things, he seems to be catching up on correspondence, including sending encouraging notes to an Argentine nun who ministers to transgender women in the pope’s native country.

Ladaria: ‘I am in a deep and spontaneous harmony with the Pope’
- Interviews
- July 22, 2017
Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, the new Jesuit prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). said he is “in a deep and spontaneous harmony” with Pope Francis. The archbishop was speaking during a recent visit to the pope’s homeland, Argentina.
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Pope phones trash man who lost legs in accident
- Catholic News Agency, Vatican
- July 21, 2017
A father of five children had been collecting garbage in a Buenos Aires neighborhood in March when he was struck by a car going some 80 miles an hour. As a result of the accident, both of his legs had to be amputated. Before being honored by the city, he received a call from Pope Francis.
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In Argentina’s religious freedom row, politics makes strange bedfellows
- Global Church
- July 17, 2017
A debate in the pope’s native Argentina over a proposed religious freedom law offers a classic illustration of the maxim that “politics makes strange bedfellows,” with both deeply conservative Archbishop Héctor Rubén Aguer of La Plata and Amnesty International opposing it — Aguer because he thinks it would make other religions equal to Catholicism, Amnesty because they fear a loss of sexual freedom.
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