Mexico City, Mexico, Aug 15, 2007 / 07:50 am
The Cardinal of Mexico City, Norberto Rivera, has been asked to provide information about a sexual abuse case in Los Angeles. The court deposition has become the occasion for his critics to accuse the cardinal of drumming up non-existent support.
The director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Father Hugo Valdemar Romero, has forcefully challenged a journalist from the Masonic influenced, anti-Catholic newspaper, La Jornada, to back up his claims that question the legitimacy of the support for Cardinal Norberto Rivera by lay organizations.
Columnist Leon Zaragoza, accused of being paid by La Jornada to write articles critical of Cardinal Rivera, recently wrote that the massive support for the cardinal, who has been questioned in connection with a sex abuse lawsuit, was orchestrated by the Church.
Father Romero challenged Leon to prove his claim and he lamented “the calumnious story by Gabriel Leon, who unashamedly launches continual attacks against the Catholic Church, apparently as instructed by the editorial policy of La Jornada.”