Mexican priest Eduardo Hayen Cuarón shared 3 lessons for the faithful, after the suicide of a young 35 -year -old priest who has shocked Italy and Catholics in many parts of the world.
On July 5, Fr. Matteo Balzano, a 35 -year -old priest of the Italian Diocese of Novara, took his life, which raised great shock among the local faithful and a series of reflections in this regard.
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In his X accountFr. Haen offered three lessons that can be extracted from this painful situation:
Father Matteo Balzano, Italian, in recent days he took his life. Many people on social networks are scandalized because they are a priest. Lessons we can learn:
1. Pray for your soul and avoid condemnatory judgments. Only God is the judge who decides … pic.twitter.com/khdEmmqndm
– Father Eduardo Hayen Cuarón 🇲🇽🇺🇸 (@Padrehayen) July 8, 2025
1. Pray for your soul and avoid condemnatory judgments
The director of the weekly presence of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico stressed that “only God is the judge who decides the fate of each person. In moments of confusion, as a church, to pray in pain and charity.”
2. Priests are not angels, they are human
“The priests,” said the Mexican priest, “we are not angels but human beings, each with their own history of joy, hope, sadness and difficult experiences.”
“In the ministry we face situations that give us a lot of joys, and others that need to have a lot of maturity to be able to handle pain situations that are quite complex,” he added.
Therefore, “we also need to rest with our family, friends, and have healthy distractions that repair our forces.”
3. Let’s not idealize priests
On this point, Fr. Hayen stressed that “like every human person we can cross for mental health crisis and moments of great inner darkness.”
“I know priests who go to the psychiatrist or the psychologist because they want to improve their mental health. These tools to improve mental health are positive because they have their origin in Jesus, who is a doctor of the body, mind and soul of the person, and who in his providence has left them to heal us,” said the Mexican presbyter.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.