{"id":491514,"date":"2025-11-17T06:42:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-pope-is-informed-of-the-case-of-the-bishop-of-cadiz-and-will-probably-accept-the-resignation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:42:46","slug":"the-pope-is-informed-of-the-case-of-the-bishop-of-cadiz-and-will-probably-accept-the-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-pope-is-informed-of-the-case-of-the-bishop-of-cadiz-and-will-probably-accept-the-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope is informed of the case of the bishop of C\u00e1diz and will probably accept the resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"The Pope has been informed of the accusation against the bishop of C\u00e1diz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza, and will probably accept his resignation, although the date of this decision has not been communicated, explained the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Luis Arg\u00fcello, after Monday’s meeting with Leo XIV.<\/a>\n\n“It’s a competition of the Holy See and we have been told, not by the Holy Father, but in another context, that it might be accepted soon, but we have not been told either the date or the way the resignation will be accepted,” Arg\u00fcello said in statements to the media.\n\nThe CEE leadership arrived this Monday at the Vatican before the 128th Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) and amid the controversy over the investigation of the bishop of C\u00e1diz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza, for an alleged crime of sexual abuse against a minor when he was a priest in Getafe (Madrid).\n\n\n

You can also read<\/strong>: U.S. Department of State will designate the Cartel de los Soles as terrorists<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe president of the EEC assured that Pope Leo XIV is informed of the case but that he did not tell them anything more during the meeting they held, which lasted about an hour.\n\n“It is the signature of the Holy Father that accepts a resignation and that appoints either a substitute or a successor, or an administration. Therefore, logically, the Holy Father has to be informed,” he added about the resignation presented by Bishop Zornoza fifteen months ago, when it corresponded to him having reached 75 years of age, the retirement age of prelates.\n\nArg\u00fcello recalled that “the situation of the bishop of C\u00e1diz is currently in an investigation phase and that in the face of this investigation phase, we maintain the existence of two rights: the right of any victim to raise their case and the right to the presumption of innocence”.\n\nHe also argued that the Spanish Church launched over a year ago a “reparation system for victims whose cases are time-barred or even if the accused have died and this path is the one that is open, functioning, and we have received confirmation of this path from the Holy See”.\n\nAnd faced with the slowness of the processes also in the Vatican, he argued that “processes in general are almost always slow because they are guarantor.”\n\nOn the other hand, the Spanish bishops also met with the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, who a few weeks ago received the Minister of the Presidency, F\u00e9lix Bola\u00f1os, to address issues such as abuse or the fate of the Valley of the Fallen.\n\nIn the meeting with Parolin, the dialogue with the Government was addressed, explained the president of the CEE, “in order to be able to further guarantee the trust of the victims” and also commented “especially, by the archbishop of Madrid, the result of the ideas competition on the Valley of the Fallen so that the cardinal would have direct information on what this result of this competition is”.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pope has been informed of the accusation against the bishop of C\u00e1diz and Ceuta, Rafael Zornoza, and will probably accept his resignation, although the date of this decision has not been communicated, explained the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Luis Arg\u00fcello, after Monday’s meeting with Leo XIV. “It’s a competition of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-23RE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}