US EditionVatican Probes Spanish Bishop Over Abuse Allegation
- On Monday, the Vatican confirmed it is investigating sexual abuse allegations against Bishop Rafael Zornoza, the Diocese of Cadiz y Ceuta said, with El Pais reporting the probe concerns abuse of a teenage boy in the 1990s.
- Accusations date to the 1990s, the Diocese of Cadiz y Ceuta said the claims are very serious and false, while Bishop Rafael Zornoza firmly denies them.
- A Church tribunal convened at the Vatican's embassy to Spain in Madrid is handling the inquiry, and Bishop Rafael Zornoza, who has led the Diocese of Cadiz y Ceuta since 2011, is the first Spanish bishop publicly investigated by the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church.
- Zornoza is temporarily suspending his schedule and will cooperate fully with the inquiry, the Diocese of Cadiz y Ceuta said, urging respect for the presumption of innocence and confidence in the justice system.
- Public comment has been limited as the case unfolds, with the Vatican press office not immediately responding and the allegation adding to decades-long scandals damaging the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church's credibility.
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Bishop of Cádiz steps back from duties amid sexual-abuse allegations he denies
BARCELONA – Following news that the Vatican has opened an investigation into sexual-abuse allegations that he denies, Bishop Rafael Zornoza of Cádiz and Ceuta, has stepped back from his duties to “clarify the facts.” The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta released a statement Nov. 10, responding to news in El País that the Vatican has opened an ecclesiastical investigation into accusations dating back to 1994 that Zornoza sexually abused a young man age…
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abcThe Spanish Episcopal Conference (EEC) has expressed its "trust in justice" and has shown its "respect" for the work of the Tribunal of the Rota of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain after this body received a complaint about a possible case of paedophilia by the bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza. Thus EEC sources have expressed themselves in statements to Europa Press this Monday, hours after the Bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta assured that th…
The Spanish Church denies the charges brought against the bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta even though the Vatican decided to open an investigation.
The Vatican opened an inquiry into the bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza, 76 years old, for alleged sexual abuse continued on a minor in the nineties. The complaint, filed last summer by a former seminarian at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and cited today by the newspaper El País, accuses the prelate of sexual and psychological violence committed between 1994 and 2000, when Zornoza was a priest and directed the major semina…
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