Mexican bishops elect Guadalajara cardinal as new president

Mexican bishops elect Guadalajara cardinal as new president

Published:

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- The Mexican bishops' conference has elected Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara as its president, tapping a prelate known for his positive relations with the country's incoming president. Cardinal Robles was elected Nov. 14 at the bishops' semi-annual meeting, replacing Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Tlalnepantla. His elevation to conference president came less than three weeks before President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto takes office Dec. 1, bringing back the once-staunchly anti-clerical Institutional Revolutionary Party to power after 12 years in opposition. The party has discarded much of its public disdain for the prelates, and Pena was scheduled to meet with the bishops at their meeting. But Bernardo Barranco, a columnist on religious affairs and former electoral institute official, said the conference was taking no chances by electing Cardinal Robles. The cardinal served as bishop of Toluca -- capital of Mexico state, where Pena was governor -- and became close with the party clan in which the incoming president cut his political teeth. "He should get along well with the new administration," Barranco said. Pena fostered cordial relations with Catholic leaders in during his 2005-2011 term as governor and was even invited to the Vatican in 2009 by the bishops of Mexico state for a pre-Christmas audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

---

Copyright (c) Catholic News Service /U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The CNS news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed, including but not limited to such means as framing or any other digital copying or distribution method, in whole or in part without the prior written authority of Catholic News Service .

Source: http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2012/11/15/news-6/?s=

masters par 3 contest google augmented reality glasses wonderlic test texas tornado fantasy baseball jared sullinger jaleel white