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Bolivian cardinal-elect denies having secret wife, children

Bolivian cardinal-elect denies having secret wife, children | iNFOnews.ca
Bolivia's newly named Cardinal, Monsignor Toribio Ticona Porco, gives a blessing after a press conference in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, May 21, 2018. The Archbishop of Corocoro, named cardinal by Pope Francis on Sunday, worked as a miner to support his family before entering the seminary when he was 30. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

LA PAZ, Bolivia – A retired Bolivian bishop tapped by Pope Francis to be a cardinal is furiously denying suggestions that he has a wife and children and is threatening legal action.

Toribio Ticona said Wednesday that he “has nothing to do” with the alleged actions and said he would bring a legal complaint if the claims continue.

Francis named the 81-year-old cardinal last week. Ticona says the accusations were disproven after they first emerged in 2011 and have “resurfaced as slander in an attempt to attack” the pope by “sectors that are hostile” to the pontiff.

The accusations recently appeared in the Catholic blog “Adelanto en la Fe” — “Forward in the Faith.” It cites a 2011 complaint to local Catholic authorities that says Ticona had a family in a rural town.

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