The Vicariate of Youth of the Archbishopric of Córdoba expressed its deep pain and rejection for the murder of Catalina Gutiérrez, a young influencer of only 21 years, a fact that has shocked all of Argentina.
According to reports AICAthe vicarage expressed its “deepest pain and repudiation for the femicide of Catalina Gutiérrez.”
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“We join in prayer for Catalina’s eternal rest, the strength of her family, and we renew our commitment to building a world without violence,” the vicarage added through her Instagram account.
The murder of Catalina Gutiérrez
According to the Argentine newspaper Córdoba Profileon Wednesday, July 17, the young woman, who in Instagram He has 113 thousand followers, he left his house around 9:00 pm (local time) to meet a group of friends and play bowling, but he never arrived.
That set off alarms in those closest to them and they began to look for the young architecture student. Finally, around 11:40 pm, she was found dead in the car that her mother lent her.
The authorities have detained as a suspect a young man, also 21 years old, who in his demonstration said that Catalina was the “love of his life” and in whose house a ring was found that the young woman had lost when struggling with him. The autopsy, according to the same newspaper, revealed that Catalina Gutiérrez died from strangulation and asphyxiation.
God “has a perfect plan for us”
Lázaro Oliveda, who was Catalina’s boyfriend, expressed his surprise at what happened and wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “I wanted you to be so, so happy. “I can’t believe it, I can’t.”
In the publication, Oliveda shared some photos with the young woman and a letter that she wrote to him for his birthday in June 2019, a text that reveals Catalina’s solid faith in God.
The young woman then wrote that God “has a perfect plan for us” and “he is going to be there in everything, giving us a hand for whatever it takes, because that is how He is, perfect.” “Whether it be praying, loving each other (which is what He wants) or whatever. I’m sure”.
“It makes me very happy that we have the same goals and values. And do not forget that God is the basis of everything, for example of our relationship, so we are more united and what we have is healthy.”
Walter Sanchez 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.