Norberto Rivera Carrera
Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera (born June 6, 1942 in La Purísima , Mexico ) is a Mexican clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico City .
Life
Norberto Rivera Carrera comes from a humble background. He studied at the Seminary of Durango the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology . After further studies he received his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University and received from Pope Paul VI on July 3, 1966 . personally the sacrament of ordination .
He then worked for eighteen years as a professor of dogmatics at the seminary of Durango , but also gave lectures in biblical theology and pastoral theology . In addition, he performed the task of the disciplinary prefect in the seminary and worked in pastoral care. For many years he was a member of the Diocesan Priests Council of Durango and was responsible for the public relations of the diocese. He was involved in the spiritual care of various religious groups, for example he founded the Jornadas de Vida Cristiana movement and was spiritual diocesan assistant for the Christian family movement Movimiento Familiar Cristiano and the Catholic Action in Durango.
On November 5, 1985, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Tehuacán . He was ordained bishop on December 21 of the same year from Antonio López Aviña , Archbishop of Durango . Co- consecrators were Adolfo Antonio Cardinal Suárez Rivera , Archbishop of Monterrey , and Rosendo Huesca Pacheco , Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles . During his time in Tehuacán, he made contact with various conservative orders and influence groups, including the Legionaries of Christ and their founder Marcial Maciel , to whose circle of friends he has belonged ever since.
On June 13, 1995, he was appointed Archbishop of Mexico City by John Paul II , and was installed in office on July 26 of the same year.
On February 21, 1998, John Paul II accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Francesco d'Assisi a Ripa Grande in the college of cardinals . Norberto Rivera Carrera participated in the 2005 conclave , in which Benedict XVI. was chosen to participate. Benedict XVI. took him on October 23, 2010 on the Cardinals Council for Economic Affairs. After the resignation of Benedict XVI. he also took part in the 2013 conclave , in which Pope Francis was elected. Carrera is a member of the Congregation for the Clergy . On March 15, 2014, he was confirmed as a member of the Pontifical Latin America Commission .
Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation on December 7, 2017. The resignation was overshadowed by allegations and suspicions against the cardinal that during his 22-year tenure as archbishop he had kept secret cases of sexual abuse of minors by clerics and systematically protected abusers from persecution. A few days before he submitted his resignation to the Apostolic Nuncio Franco Coppola , two witnesses, including the former priest and victim counselor Alberto Athié, filed a criminal complaint against Cardinal Rivera with the public prosecutor . They claim that he protected at least 15 offenders from the clergy of his archdiocese during his tenure. He also exerted massive pressure on representatives of the press to prevent reporting on the case of the sexual offender Marcial Maciel, who was later deposed from the Vatican. Shortly after his elevation to archbishop, Rivera was noticed as a vehement defender of Maciel against the first allegations of abuse, which began to circulate in the spring of 1997 and thwarted Rivera's plans to consolidate his position of power in the Mexican capital through his connections with Maciel. At this time, shortly before Maciel's fall, he was very closely connected to the influential founder of the order and tried to benefit from his extensive contacts to dignitaries at the Roman Curia and to the economic and political elites of Mexico in order to become a possible successor to Pope John Paul II. to bring into position. Rivera maintained to the last that there had been no cases of abuse in his archdiocese during his tenure; The archdiocese rejected the accusations of the complainants in 2017 on his behalf. It was not until February 2019 that the investigations against Rivera Carrera initiated by the complaint were resumed after public pressure, after the previous authority of today's prosecutor left the case unprocessed in 2017.
He was Grand Prior of the Order of Mexico of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He was spiritual advisor to the Grand Priory of America of the Order of Lazarus . From 2007 until his retirement he was President of the District of Mexico South of the American Knights of Columbus .
Web links
- Rivera Carrera, Norberto. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 6, 2015.
- Entry on Norberto Rivera Carrera on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- The Cardinal on the website of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Spanish) ( Memento of March 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ nouns di Membri e nella conferme Congregation for the Clergy. In: Bolletino. Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, June 9, 2014, accessed June 10, 2014 (Italian).
- ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di México (Messico) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, December 7, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 (Italian).
- ^ Jenaro Villamil: La sombra de la pederastia acompañará a Norberto Rivera. In: Proceso , June 13, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 (Spanish).
- ^ Abierto, el caso de Norberto Rivera por pederastia: Fiscalía. In: xeu.noticias , February 13, 2019, accessed on March 31, 2019 (Spanish).
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| SURNAME | Rivera Carrera, Norberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rivera Carrera, Cardinal Norberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican clergyman, emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico City and cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Purísima , Mexico |