{"id":84203,"date":"2026-07-08T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84203"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:09:54","slug":"spanish-cardinal-suspends-himself-after-being-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/spanish-cardinal-suspends-himself-after-being-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Cardinal Suspends Himself After Being Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/spanish-born-cardinal-crist-bal-133718544.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Spanish-born cardinal Crist\u00f3bal L\u00f3pez Romero walks next to a coffin during a ceremony in St Peter's Basilica.\" width=\"280\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am accused of inappropriate behavior \u200btoward adult women,\u201d Lopez Romero said \u200bin a statement published by Vatican News \u2060on Tuesday, adding that the situation had \u200bprompted the Catholic Church to open a preliminary \u200binvestigation.<\/p>\n<p>News of the accusations was first reported by AFP on Tuesday. In an investigation, the French news \u200bagency said that at least five women \u200bhad accused the 74-year-old prelate of sexual assault. AFP quoted Lopez \u200cRomero \u2060as saying: \u201cI have committed neither assault nor violence nor sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post: \u201cI am accused of inappropriate behavior \u200btoward adult women,\u201d Lopez Romero said \u200bin a statement published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}