Monsignor Agüer: Tucho Is Behind the Removal of the Archbishop of La Plata
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Agüer led the archdiocese of La Plata for almost two decades. He was not popular with the neighbouring archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. His successor was Tucho Fernández. He did the opposite of the Catholic Agüer and ruled with a 'persecution ideology'.
When Tucho was appointed Prefect for the Destruction of the Faith, Monsignor Mestre became Archbishop of La Plata. He began to clean up the mess that Tucho had left in La Plata. Tucho Fernández was not happy about that.
Now the names of Monsignor Mestre's possible successors are emerging: "Some of them worry and frighten me," writes Agüer.
He knows that the next archbishop will not be decided by the Apostolic Nuncio, but at a higher level: "I am not referring to the fact that it is always Francis who appoints bishops, but that today Argentina is in Rome and Argentine intrigues are well oiled [by Bergoglio and Fernández]."
Since Francis was elected Pope, the Argentine episcopate has been shaped, Agüer writes, not only by Francis' appointments, but also by what Agüer calls the Francisquismo of the Argentinean bishops who want "to keep their posts" or who "aspire to rise".
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