Monsignor Jorge García Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has turned his cathedral into a snack bar.
There are many soup kitchens in the centre of Buenos Aires that feed hundreds of people every night. So there is no need for a snack bar in the cathedral. Nor would it make sense to turn a soup kitchen into a cathedral, as this would deprive the soup kitchen's clients of their food.
After different versions of the event circulated online, the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires issued a statement:
"We would like to inform you that in the framework of the Week of Charity, on the eve of the annual collection for 'Caritas', last Tuesday, June 4, a meeting of pastoral agents who accompany people in street situations was held in the Metropolitan Cathedral."
In the early days of the Church, when the widows of Greek-speaking Jews were overlooked in the daily distribution of food, the Twelve Apostles appointed deacons to look after the poor.
They argued that "it is not desirable that we should …More