Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to the presidential candidates: it is not time of insults but of proposals

The Archbishop of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Mons. René Cesarí, urged the candidates for the presidency of the country to focus on their proposals and put aside the insults.

After the general elections, two candidates continue in the career for the presidency for the second round, which will be held in November. They are former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga and the candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, Rodrigo Paz Pereira.

Within that framework, in recent days, the candidate for Vice President of Paz Pereira, Edman Lara, issued a series of insults against Quiroga, and accused him of having initiated a “dirty war against him”, statements for which he later later apologized to the press.

The Archbishop of Santa Cruz did not ignore the political scene, and in his Sunday homilyreferring to the commitment to the man who requires our effort to be able to “enter through the narrow door,” he said that he is based on the fact that what we do is not to “appear, but to feel it and live it.”

“We can say: we are going to Mass every Sunday, we do some other work. But what the Lord wants is that what we do we really live,” he said, and this requires “coherence between what we say and what we do.”

“Here we are all called and invited. No one can say: ‘I am already on the right path.’ As long as we are in this world we must be attentive,” said Mons.

“After the elections, it is not yet defined who will guide the destinations of our country. How good it would be for those who aspire to govern look at this reality: that they go to meet the discarded, to speak with the people who are not taken into account,” he said.

“The Lord also invites them to take care of this reality. Hopefully their programs are more concrete, more settled, because they will help us all to walk better,” the prelate yearned.

“It is not time for insults, but of firm proposals: our country needs something more concrete,” he said.

Finally, addressing the faithful, he said: “We, for our part, are called to continue in prayer, to keep ourselves in the path of the Lord, to be consistent between the faith we profess and the life we ​​lead.”

“Let us ask the Lord to give us the strength to move forward without discouragement in the face of difficulties. That our faith prevails and our commitment holds us in this path of monitoring Jesus,” he concluded, asking the Virgin Mary to “help us and anime.”