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The secretary general and spokesperson for the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) and auxiliary bishop of Valladolid, Luis Argüello, has encouraged the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, that, before giving an opinion on the words of Pope Francis, the complete letter be read in which he asks Mexico for “forgiveness” for the sins and actions that did not contribute to evangelization, since they assure that the Pontiff does not refer to the conquest of America but 200 years ago.
Thus, when asked if what he means is that Ayuso read the complete letter of Pope Francis on the occasion of the Consummation of the Independence of Mexico, the spokesman for the bishops has responded affirmatively. “Yes, that is why we have offered it so that in their media they can put a link and it is easy to read it,” Argüello stressed this Thursday at a press conference after the meeting of the Permanent Commission of the EEC.
As he explained, the Spanish bishops have attended “perplexed” the comments on the letter from Pope Francis, because they consider that Bergoglio does not ask forgiveness for the conquest of America Rather, they defend that the letter refers to the independence of Mexico, 200 years ago and not 500.
“We have attended the comments of these days and we think that they have been made from a headline made without reading the document, I want to encourage you to read the document that it is directed to Mexico because it celebrates the 200 years of its independence and outside of that context the document is not understood, it refers to the 200 years of independence “, Argüello stressed.
The spokesman for the bishops has specified that the Pope speaks of a retrospective look and a process of purification of memory and “to facilitate this proposal to revise one’s roots, he says that ‘the Church’ and cites his predecessors, ‘has repeatedly asked for forgiveness’, because in its actions, not only in America alone but in any part of the world, the Church, in its task of evangelization, does things right and wrong. “
“From there making the type of headlines, editorial comments, one is amazed because it says, if it’s clear, if it’s 200 years, if the only reference that is made to 500 years is the beauty of Guadalupe, the beauty of miscegenation, “he stressed.
Asked if this could respond to a campaign to attack Pope Francis, Argüello did not want to enter to say if these comments on the Pope’s letter to Mexico “respond to a strategy of saying this Pope, in certain areas we like more or less “. “I do not want to enter”, has settled.
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