“In difficult times, the Church has the obligation to accompany everyone, and especially in a particular way to those who are most helped by life,” were the words of the Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina), Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, when heading a Symbolic hug to hospitals Located in the city sanitary pole, gesture of closeness with those who suffer and who care for them.
Inspired by Pope Francis’s message, who He affirmed that “a society is all the more human the more knows how to take care of its fragile members and that they suffer,” and within the framework of the Jubileo de la Esperanza, this activity sought to be a concrete gesture of closeness, compassion and tenderness with those who suffer but also with whom they take care and support.
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To do this, members of the Catholic community went to the heart of the health system of the city of Córdoba, the sanitary pole, where three important hospitals are located.
It was a “fraternal, supportive and healer hug”, which participated in the archbishop of Córdoba, Cardinal Ángel Rossi, who made a blessing prayer and directed words of closeness and comfort for the sick, families and health professionals present in the place.
“In difficult times, the Church has the obligation to accompany everyone, and especially in a particular way to those who are more helped by life,” said the purple. Meanwhile, in Buenos Aires, the Garrahan hospital health personnel – one of the most recognized pediatric medical centers in Latin America – protested in the vicinity of the Ministry of Health demanding salary improvements, especially for resident doctors.
Simultaneously, and in communion with the fraternal hug to the hospitals, pastoral referents of Córdoba attended the call made in the Plaza San Martín, of the capital city, to accompany the claim of the workers of the area of disability (health professionals, therapists, transporters, the people with disabilities and their relatives) Detrued the values of the benefits.
The main march was held in the city of Buenos Aires, where organizations that work with people with disabilities, family members and service providers marched to the Nation Congress, in reaction to a dentalization that drags years, but, who, they say, during the last year was exacerbated by the directive of the current national government.
The march was intended to declare the national emergency in disability, which would be treated next week in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Archbishop’s spokesman, P. Munir Bracco, took the greeting of Cardinal Rossi who participated in the call in Córdoba.
“The Archbishop of Córdoba, the vicaria of the poor, and the social pastorals accompany the brothers and sisters with disabilities, their families and institutions who, during this Thursday, are raising their voices in claim of listening and reparation before the rape and the forgetting of their rights,” said the priest, ensuring the commitment of the church to pray to God “so that the pain is to pray to God. repair personal and social injustices. ”
“We want to walk with the weakest, to those who suffer, to the excluded, fragile and helpless,” he synthesized.
Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.