The vice president of the Mexican bishops' conference says
there is a campaign under way by vested interests to disparage the Catholic
Church.
Bishop José Guadalupe Martín Rábago
of Leon backed up his contention by pointing to the unfounded accusations of
money laundering leveled against Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez,
archbishop of Guadalajara and successor of assassinated Cardinal Juan
Jesús Posadas Ocampo.
In a press conference reported by the newspaper Reforma,
Bishop Rábago said that there are "interests on
the part of certain groups and persons that in fact wish to disparage the
Church, and one can see in recent times that this type of assault has been
intensified."
"I do not know what interests are behind it," he said. "But I
think one can clearly see that there is this desire, this plan, to expose the
Church, to discredit her, and in some way to strike her image before the
community."