Asunción, Paraguay, Apr 14, 2009 / 14:48 pm
The executive committee of the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference issued a statement today on the admission by President Fernando Lugo that he fathered a child with a 16 year-old girl when he was still a Catholic bishop. In their statement the bishops asked “forgiveness for the sins of the members of the Church, those of both pastors and the faithful.”
“As bishops,” they said, “we renew our commitment assumed at Episcopal ordination and we ask all our priests to put into practice the promises recently confirmed at the Chrism Mass. We beg of the Holy Spirit, as Church, the grace of a profound purification.”