The Archbishop of Montevideo, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, gave an interview to the newspaper El País in which he plunged into political issues and opined, in his style, against human and sexual rights.
He began by saying that “he is struck by (…) the number of people living on the streets” after the COVID-19 pandemic, which he described as a “complex issue related to psychiatric issues, consumer issues and people issues.” He gets out of jail.”
“It does not mean that everyone is in this box, but in general who is on the street or there is a psychiatric issue or has been in prison and has been released, but the family has not received it or has a consumer issue for which they are on the street. And sometimes all three. But they have multiplied. We see it,” she added.
The Catholic prelate believes that the problem drug use in people with fewer resources “It’s not an economic issue” rather it is “a spiritual theme”: “And that is the drama of Uruguay. What happens to us as a society? I believe that it is a spiritual vacuum and there is a decrease in the religious sense of life that the Christian faith gives. And all that is not present, because faith is weakened, makes people look elsewhere.
Against secularism and sexual rights
Regarding the “weakening” of faith that he claims to be in Uruguay, Sturla blames the “famous Uruguayan secularism that was a strong and quite effective attempt to de-Christianize society.”
“A good example is secularized holidays, that the 25th is family day or that Tourism is the week and not Easter. Afterwards, the Church has had a communication problem with the people and especially in the most popular neighborhoods”, added Sturla.
Regarding abortion, he stated that “the time will come, which I don’t think our generation will see, when the defense of human life will flourish again from its conception to its natural death. And these permissive laws such as abortion are going to be seen as a horror ».
He added that, in his opinion, “abortion as such is the worst tragedy in the contemporary world.”
