Argentina: Strong repudiation of the Catholic community against OLGA’s parody of the birth of Jesus

In recent days, the Olga streaming channel, in Argentina, aired a production with humorous pretensions, where the birth of Jesus was parodied, which generated a strong rejection in the Catholic community. This Thursday a Rosary will be prayed in reparation.

The staging of the Manger was broadcast on the program “My cousin is like that,” and was starred by Tomás Kirzner, who considered that the protests against the sketch “are risks that one takes in some humorous spaces.”

“It was not in a pejorative way, it is a recycled joke that has been seen several times in satires and parodies,” said the actor, according to the Argentine newspaper. The Nation.

The Team of Priests of Villas, Popular Neighborhoods and Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo of Argentina expressed their repudiation of what happened with a statement titled “A manger that makes noise.”

“God is born in a manger. Invite and call the poorest first. In the towns and popular neighborhoods where we live—even in difficult times—our people renew their spirit of faith and hope, of family and community, always trusting in God. Our houses are very similar to a manger,” the document reads.

“In this sense, we want to express our repudiation of the stream that showed a living Nativity scene that was totally offensive to many residents of our neighborhoods. Devotion to the manger is part of popular religiosity. The images and expressions in this stream also hurt the sensitivity of people from other social sectors, even those far from the Christian faith who know how to respect the beliefs of others,” he denounces.

Taking into account that faith is an “engine of transformation” and religiosity “sustains the lives of many people and it is not good to make fun of this,” and even understanding humor, art and sarcasm, they consider it “unacceptable to fall into low blows.” that bastardize symbols rooted in our people.”

Likewise, they describe as “aberrant” that in the aforementioned representation it was said that Jesus “will smoke churro for life”, in clear allusion to marijuana, because “something that can be recreational for other social sectors, can be deadly in our neighborhoods.” popular.”

“Every day people are dying from cases linked to drugs. And in many of those cases they started by smoking a joint,” they emphasize.

Dealing with “two central issues for our people: popular religiosity and lightness towards the issue of drugs”, the priests of the popular towns and neighborhoods do not want to “let go” of what happened.

Among the reactions provoked by Olga’s sketch, a call circulates on social networks to pray the Holy Rosary “in reparation and repudiation for the blasphemous parody of the birth of Christ”, for this Thursday, December 19 at 2:00 p.m. at the door of the Olga canal (Humboldt 1507, City of Buenos Aires).

The call was broadcast in the social networks of the Missionaries of Christianity groupand also on the website of Fr. Javier Olivera Ravasi https://www.quenotelacuenten.org/.