Dominican Republic Archives

Venezuelan opposition eases temperature at Vatican request
- Associated Press, Vatican
- November 1, 2016
Venezuela’s opposition warily welcomed on Tuesday the government’s release of four jailed activists, a response to the Vatican’s efforts to avert bloodshed and dampen acrimony in the oil-rich South American country.
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Priest in Haiti with passion for mission tells God to ‘hurry up’
- Catholic News Service
- October 1, 2016
A new documentary of a remarkable Haitian priest, Father Joseph Philippe, says that over a long career of mission, he spends part of almost every day arguing with God. “I want him to hurry up!” Philippe said. Otherwise, he added, “he gets an ‘I,’ for incomplete.”
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Pope Francis presses shake-up of world’s bishops with DR pick
- Analysis, Global Church
- July 4, 2016
With the oldest cathedral in the Americas and a long history as the base for evangelization of the continent, Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, is known as the “Primate of the Americas.” Pope Francis has again caused surprise by appointing a little-known bishop as its new head.
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Bishop accuses OAS of pro-abortion, pro-gay ‘ideological colonization’

As the Organization of American States opens its annual assembly in the Dominican Republic on Monday, Bishop Víctor Masalles, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, is accusing it of “ideological colonization” in pushing an agenda in favor of abortion, gay marriage and “gender theory.”

Bishop accuses US envoy of pushing pro-LGBT agenda

Church

May 1, 2016

Bishop Victor Masalles, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, believes that Ambassador James Brewster is engaging in a vintage example of what Pope Francis has called “ideological colonization,” meaning Western nations using their money and power to try to force developing societies to abandon their traditional values.

Vatican trial for Józef Wesołowski a pivotal moment for Pope Francis

Church

July 7, 2015

While Pope Francis is wowing vast crowds on a triumphant homecoming to Latin America this week, one of the pivotal moments of his papacy is set to begin back in Rome on Saturday with the opening of a criminal trial for former papal diplomat Józef Wesołowski on charges of sexual