Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga warned Catholics of the risk of ending up “indigested by politics” in this 2025 election year, in which he and his compatriots will elect the country’s new authorities.
The general elections in Honduras will be held on November 30, 2025. They will elect the new president, the 128 regular deputies of Congress and the 128 substitutes, in addition to 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament; and a total of 298 mayors of 2092 councilors.
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According to reports Celam DNAin a Mass that he presided on January 6, the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, the cardinal highlighted that “this is a political year for Honduras, but we must not lose sight of the fact that it is also a Holy Year, a Jubilee of hope.”
In that sense, the cardinal encouraged people not to become “indigested by politics” and encouraged the faithful to let themselves be guided by the Lord: “We must seek God, follow our creator and not the politicians.”
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga also encouraged making some personal sacrifices as signs of personal commitment: “for example, I do not want there to be fights in my house this year and I am committed to controlling my desire for power.”
Remembering the star that guided the three Wise Men, the Archbishop Emeritus of Tegucigalpa said that “we should not follow a star that guides towards resentment, but rather seek peace and love in our lives, especially in this time of grace.”
The cardinal also asked to keep hope and faith alive thinking about a better future for Honduras. “Hope and faith are fundamental pillars that must be kept alive in the hearts and prayers of every Honduran.”
The Jubilee of the Catholic Church
The Jubilee of Hope 2025, inaugurated by Pope Francis on December 24 with the opening of the Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, is a very important event for Catholics because it offers an extraordinary opportunity to achieve salvation and experience that God’s holiness can transform us.
It is a gift that helps us reach Heaven because it makes available to the faithful all the facilities to obtain the “treasure” of the Church: the plenary indulgence, the one that returns the soul to the state in which it was when receiving Baptism.
If you want to know how to obtain a plenary indulgence, you can go to this link.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.