Bishop Machado - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:42:34 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bishop Machado - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope accepts resignation of drink-driving bishop https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/12/18/pope-accepts-resignation-of-drink-driving-bishop/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:07:22 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=79931 Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Brazilian Bishop Paulo Sérgio Machado, who was involved in an alleged drink-driving incident. Bishop Machado was the ordinary of São Carlos, a city of 220,000 in south-eastern Brazil. In September, the bishop was stopped by police after he exhibited signs of intoxication while driving and almost hit a Read more

Pope accepts resignation of drink-driving bishop... Read more]]> Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Brazilian Bishop Paulo Sérgio Machado, who was involved in an alleged drink-driving incident.

Bishop Machado was the ordinary of São Carlos, a city of 220,000 in south-eastern Brazil.

In September, the bishop was stopped by police after he exhibited signs of intoxication while driving and almost hit a pedestrian and another vehicle.

An empty wine bottle was found in the bishop's car.

Days later, the diocese issued a statement denying reports that he had offered his resignation.

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