May 19, 2006

VATICAN: POPE, SILENCE AND PENITENCE FOR FATHER MACIEL

VATICAN CITY
AGI

(AGI) - Vatican City, May 19 - 'Taking account both of the advanced age of reverend father Marcial Maciel Degollado as well as his poor health, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under the leadership of new prefect, Cardinal William Levada, has decided to 'give up on a canonical trial and ask the father to spend his life in prayer and penitence, renouncing all public ministries'.

Posted by kshaw at May 19, 2006 07:47 AM