SANTIAGO (CHILE)
Cooperativa
>>Lay of Osorno: We will not lend ourselves to a washing of image during the visit of the Pope
January 13, 2018
A dos días del arribo del papa Francisco a Chile, y en medio de la incertidumbre sobre la postura que adoptará respecto al obispo Juan Barros -sindicado como uno de los encubridores de los abusos del cura Karadima- los laicos de Osorno advirtieron en Cooperativa que, luego de las “humillaciones” que han sufrido, durante la visita “no se prestarán para un lavado de imagen”.
Cabe recordar que el pontífice, en el año 2015, trató de “tontos y zurdos” a quienes, en la ciudad de la Región de Los Lagos, se oponen a la figura de Barros, y los integrantes del movimiento de laicos ya anunciaron manifestaciones durante la visita papal.
Además, en las últimas horas una carta del papa Francisco -dirigida al Comité Permanente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Chile, con fecha del 31 de enero de 2015- reveló un plan del Vaticano para pedir la renuncia y otorgar un año sabático a tres obispos -entre ellos Barros- acusados de encubrir los abusos del ex párroco de El Bosque Fernando Karadima.
[Partial Google Translation: The spokesman of the lay community of Osorno, Juan Carlos Claret , said that “if the Pope wants to speak with us, by virtue of the filtering of this letter, we will be available, but we will not be available to be a conversation where we have to enter through the backyard of the Nunciature (Apostolic) , in which we have to walk saying that we are going to have to keep confidentiality for centuries of the centuries, as Rome does after having private meetings “.
“At this moment we are demanding that we be recognized as equals within the Church, and we will not lend ourselves to games of image washing ,” the activist warned.
“For three years we have been forced to beg inside the Church.” We have repeatedly addressed the Pope, the Apostolic Nuncio (Ivo Scapolo , the Holy See’s principal representative to the Government) has been extremely violent with us ” and, after this letter, “you should leave Chile,” Claret continued.
” The Pope even, on August 16, 2016, was going to receive me in the Vatican , I traveled there, but when I arrived in Rome, the Pope sent me to say through the Embassy of Chile in the Holy Headquarters, through Italo Capurro (second secretary of the permanent diplomatic mission), who was not going to receive me because the issue of Osorno irritates him , “said the spokesman for the city’s laity.]
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