Christian tradition has always presented the family model, which in the modern world has been substantially changed to the point of being unrecognizable, thanks to widespread abortion, divorce, promiscuity, and homosexuality.
I do not deny that evangelical joy is a value that integrates the Christian conception of life, but it is also undeniable that calamities exist. I cannot imagine Our Lord Jesus Christ with a perpetual smile.
At the Masses where chants against Argentine President Javier Milei were heard, the greatest harm has been the undermining of the liturgical mystery, as if the Mass were a Protestant or evangelical gathering.
Argentine bishops are not paying attention to the numerous critical voices complaining about deviations from the Catholic religion – and that they are affecting the reality of the Church at a time when the Supreme Pontiff is Argentinean.
Jorge García Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, spoke to a group of young people and had the opportunity to 'evangelize' Jesus Christ to them, as St. Paul would say. Instead, he urged them 'build the Argentina they desire' and never 'stop dreaming.'
The Ministry of Defense issued a resolution announcing that it would 'eliminate incorrect forms of language,' and a presidential spokesman said the ban would extend throughout the national public administration.
The Lepanto Institute and CatholicVote confirmed that a lightning strike blasted off the right hand and key of a statue of St. Peter north of Buenos Aires on December 17.
In the last 50 years religious practice has notably declined, evangelical and Pentecostal groups have multiplied, the liturgy has fallen into total disarray, and the Church has become absent from the centers where cultural expressions develop.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller published an open letter critiquing the authority of Amoris Laetitia and subsequent papal pronouncements on Communion for divorced and 'remarried' Catholics.