{"id":20374,"date":"2012-06-27T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=20374"},"modified":"2012-06-27T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T09:44:44","slug":"argentinian-bishop-bargallo-quits-over-sex-scandal-20374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/argentinian-bishop-bargallo-quits-over-sex-scandal-20374\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian Bishop Fernando Maria Bargallo quits over sex scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Argentine bishop Fernando Maria Bargallo\u00a0resigns in scandal over photos\u00a0showing him embracing a woman at a luxury beach in Mexico.<\/h1>\n

Fernando Maria Bargallo\u00a0was forced to hand in his resignation to the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican’s diplomatic mission in the Argentine capital\u00a0after photographs emerged this month showing him frolicking and embracing a blonde woman in bikini on a Mexican beach. The Vatican has accepted Bargallo’s resignation.<\/p>\n

At the beginning Bargallo said the atractive blonde was only a childhood friend, but later he approved to having had ‘ amorous ties ‘ with her.\u00a0Monsignor Fernando Maria Bargallo, the bishop of Merlo-Moreno outside Buenos Aires\u00a0also apologized for the possibility that the scandal might lead to bad interpretations and said he was totally committed to God and the church. He also added that\u00a0the situation in which he had been photographed was\u00a0imprudent, as it could lead people to jump to the wrong conclusion.<\/p>\n

Catholic bishop\u00a0Fernando Maria Bargallo\u00a0resigns in scandal over photos showing him embracing a\u00a0woman on a Mexican beach<\/h2>\n

Photographs of the meet of Argentinian bishop and his lover were broadcast by the\u00a0Argentine television station showed\u00a0pictures of Monsignor Bargallo on holiday at a beach resort in Mexico in the company of a woman.\u00a0In one of the pictures, he is seen half-submerged in the water, hugging a woman in a bikini.\u00a0On the others we can see that\u00a0Argentinian bishop\u00a0Fernando Maria\u00a0Bargallo is close and face-to-face with the bikini-clad woman. Others show them simply enjoying the water and the view in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Argentinian Bishop Fernando Maria\u00a0Bargallo had been the bishop of Merlo Moreno, a populous diocese on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, since May 1997, and until last year was president of Caritas Argentina and currently has the same responsibility in Caritas Latin America, both divisions of Caritas, the international network of Catholic charity organizations.<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI\u00a0accepts Argentine bishop’s Bargallo resignation over sex scandal in Mexico<\/h3>\n

Pope Benedict XVI has severely denied claims that abstention may have contributed to sex abuse scandals, insisting repeatedly that celibacy is central to the priesthood.\u00a0Two three months ago he issued a rare condemnation of errant priests, slamming in particular an ‘ appeal to religious disobedience ‘ launched by a group of Austrian clerics in 2011, which argued for an end to priestly celibacy.<\/p>\n

Officially the Vatican said that former Argentinian bishop Fernando Maria Bargallo can be replaced by Monsignor Alcides Jorge Pedro Casaretto.<\/p>\n\n

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