Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes

Mexican Catholic leaders decry insecurity, plead for peace after murders
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Jun 15, 2019
The Mexican bishops’ conference issued a plea for peace and Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes asked priests to celebrate Masses “for all the victims of violence in the country” after a pair of kidnappings and killings in the national capital provoked outrage and worsened perceptions of insecurity.
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Catholic Church in Mexico praises Trump deal; Bolivian archbishop decries corruption
- Church in the Americas
- Jun 11, 2019
Ines San Martin discusses news around Latin America.
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Archdiocese of Mexico City seeks to seize initiative in fight against abuse
- Church in the Americas
- Mar 22, 2019
Continuing its efforts to fight clerical sexual abuse, the Archdiocese of Mexico City presented on Wednesday an Interdisciplinary Team for Attention to Victims, that involves priests, lay people and survivors, including the director of SNAP-Mexico.
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Mexican Church promises to work with new president, but not to be ‘accomplice’
- Church in the Americas
- Dec 5, 2018
Mexico’s Catholic Church is taking a wait-and-see attitude to newly-elected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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As caravan moves north, Catholics insist seeking asylum not a crime
- Church in the Americas
- Oct 31, 2018
As President Donald Trump prepares to send 5,200 troops to Mexican border to block some 4,000 Central American asylum-seekers, Catholic leaders are urging governments to address the underlying causes of migration while reminding people that seeking asylum is not a crime.
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Drafter says ‘zero tolerance’ didn’t belong in a synod doc on young people
- Interviews, Synod of Bishops on Youth
- Oct 30, 2018
Mexican Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, a member of the 12-person drafting team for the Oct. 3-28 Synod of Bishops, said Monday that the phrase “zero tolerance” on fighting abuse was taken out because this was a meeting on young people, not minors.
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