Pope accepts the reduction of Paraguay’s President (who was a Catholic Bishop) to the lay state
5 August 2008
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Loading ...(h2onews)Benedict XVI has granted a laicization to the president-elect of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, an ordained bishop of the Catholic Church, who until now was suspended “a divinis”. The office of the president is incompatible with his clerical state.
Bishop Lugo had renounced his clerical state on December 18, 2006 in order to run for election. The [...]