Paraguay’s leading prelate defends celibacy following ex-bishop president's criticisms

July 01, 2009

Archbishop Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga of Asunción, Paraguay’s leading prelate, has defended the discipline of clerical celibacy after Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, the former Catholic bishop who is now the nation’s president, criticized it. “There are moments in life when emotions and love know no age or situation,” said the ex-bishop president. “There are people who make one's heart beat faster.”

 

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Further information:

• Presidente almorzó con su hijo Armindo (La Nacion)
• Paraguayan prelate says church has no reason to reconsider celibacy (CNS)
• Paraguay's ex-bishop president charged with sexual assault (CWN, June 25)
• www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3337