{"id":211367,"date":"2024-02-19T07:09:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=211367"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:44:14","slug":"catholic-church-defends-bishop-investigated-by-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/19\/catholic-church-defends-bishop-investigated-by-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Church defends bishop investigated by Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Benito-Angeles-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211456\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Benito-Angeles-Listin-Diario.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Benito-Angeles-Listin-Diario-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Benito-Angeles-Listin-Diario-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Monsignor Benito Angeles is due to retire this year because of his age. He will be 75 years in March 2024. Nevertheless, media in Spain has reported Angeles is being investigated by the Vatican for a sex charge in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N Digital recalls the long list of sex abuse charges against clergy in the Dominican Republic that have been covered in the media in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archdiocese of Santo Domingo says it has no information on the investigation and that the Spanish media seeks to damage the reputation of Monsignor Benito Angeles and the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/arquidiocesis-dice-no-tiene-evidencias-sobre-investigacion\/\">El Dia <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/infovaticana.com\/2024\/02\/16\/exclusiva-el-obispo-auxiliar-de-santo-domingo-benito-angeles-investigado-por-el-vaticano-por-agresion-sexual\/\">Info Vaticana <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2024\/02\/16\/iglesia-catolica-dominicana-asediada-con-escandalos-de-abusos-sexuales-en-los-ultimos-anos\/\">N Digital <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2024\/02\/16\/benito-angeles-debera-presentar-su-renuncia-en-un-mes-por-motivos-de-edad\/\">N Digital <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 February 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsignor Benito Angeles is due to retire this year because of his age. He will be 75 years in March 2024. Nevertheless, media in Spain has reported Angeles is being investigated by the Vatican for a sex charge in the Dominican Republic. N Digital recalls the long list of sex abuse charges against clergy in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/19\/catholic-church-defends-bishop-investigated-by-vatican\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211457,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367\/revisions\/211457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}