Spanish Bishop Targeted Over Disability Sermon

Illustrative image / Photo: pixabay.com In the Spanish town of Torrecaballeros, a priest of the church of San Nicolás de Bari refused to administer Holy Communion to the mayor of the town, a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), on the grounds that he lives in a homosexual marriage, a fact incompatible with Christian morality and with the canonical requirements regarding access to the Sacraments. The cleric did not invoke person…

(EFE).- The homily of a Spanish emeritus bishop has generated social controversy and political criticism for saying that disability is “inheritance of sin and the disorder of nature”, so that the government has denounced it in the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The Ministry of Social Rights, led by leftist Pablo Bustinduy, considers that [...] The Polish entry into Spain by a bishop who associated disability with sin was first published in ALnavío.

Spanish Bishop Targeted Over Disability Sermon

Spain’s Socialist government has reported a retired bishop to the State Prosecutor for remarks made during a sermon in Salamanca, accusing him of promoting an “unacceptable” message by referring to disability as a consequence of “sin” and the “disorder of nature.”The May 11 sermon by Juan Antonio Reig Pla, Emeritus Bishop of Alcalá de Henares, affirmed Catholic teaching on human dignity, stating: “Children who are born with physical, intellectua…

The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agency 2030 has denounced to the Prosecutor's Office the words of Bishop Emeritus of Alcalá de Henares, Juan

The Ministry of Social Rights has denounced to the Prosecutor's Office the words of the bishop emeritus of Alcalá de Henares Antonio Reig Pla, who stated in a homily that disability is "inheritance of sin and the disorder of nature" and points out that it could have committed a crime for encouraging or inciting discrimination and for going against the law of equal treatment, according to EFE.