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Catholic leaders in Costa Rica oppose bill forcing priests to break seal of confession

November 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA).
A group of Catholic leaders from Costa Rica — including Daniel Blanco, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San José — recently participated in a webinar titled “Sac… […]

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Gänswein to Costa Rica? Report of Benedict’s secretary becoming nuncio is ‘speculation,’ Vatican sources say

March 22, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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CNA Newsroom, Mar 22, 2023 / 08:36 am (CNA).
Following a report that Pope Francis will appoint Archbishop Georg Gänswein as the Vatican’s next ambassador to Costa Rica, sources inside the Vatican have told CNA Deutsch … […]

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Church in Costa Rica to compensate four victims of ex-priest serving 20-year sentence

February 6, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The Costa Rican Bishops’ Conference and the Archdiocese of San José announced that an agreement has been reached to compensate four victims of sexual abuse by ex-priest Mau… […]

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Costa Rican priest shares his journey from intelligence agent to the Catholic priesthood

February 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Luis Enrique Guillén. / Credit: Archdiocese of San José

CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Father Luis Enrique Guillén left a police career in the National Intelligence and Security Directorate of Costa Rica to give his life to … […]

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Tabernacle desecrated, consecrated hosts stolen from Costa Rica church 

October 21, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 21, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A church in northern Costa Rica was desecrated Oct. 19 when unknown vandals broke open a tabernacle and stole consecrated hosts and va… […]

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Court rules Church in Costa Rica must pay $100,000 compensation to sex-abuse victim

August 25, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver Newsroom, Aug 25, 2022 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
A lower court in Costa Rica ruled that the Catholic Church in the Central American country must pay about $100,000 to a victim of sexual abuse committed by a former p… […]

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Costa Rican bishop receives Missionaries of Charity expelled from Nicaragua

July 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Eugenio Salazar Mora kneels before the superior of the Missionaries of Charity expelled from Nicaragua on July 6, 2022. / Credit: Facebook / Video capture

Cañas, Costa Rica, Jul 12, 2022 / 09:35 am (CNA).
The bishop of Tilarán-Liberia in… […]

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Costa Rican bishop suspends priest for saying Novus Order Mass in Latin and ad orientem

August 21, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

When a priest celebrates Mass ad orientem, he faces in the same direction as the congregation. / Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA.

Alajuela, Costa Rica, Aug 21, 2021 / 19:04 pm (CNA).
The Diocese of Alajuela, in the Northern region of Costa Rica, confirmed … […]

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Costa Rican priest suspended, sent for psychological treatment for celebrating Latin Novus Ordo

August 20, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 53

A Costa Rican priest says he has been suspended, removed from his parish, and sent to psychological treatment by his bishop who is angry with him for celebrating the reformed liturgy in Latin and ad […]

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‘The just are paying for sinners’: A Costa Rican Traditional Latin Mass supporter on Traditionis custodes

August 18, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

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Alajuela, Costa Rica, Aug 18, 2021 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A group which has promoted the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in Costa Rica has lamented that with Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes, “the … […]

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