Argentina: Presiding Bishop Believes “Religious Fundamentalism” Is Blocking Francis
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Ojea was made a Buenos Aires auxiliary bishop under Bergoglio in 2006. He presented three video reflections on the challenges facing the Church in Argentina. His enemies are “secularising extremism” and “religious fundamentalism.” The latter is a swearword used by secularising extremists to abuse Catholics.
Ojea fights a "religious fundamentalism" that does “not respect the freedom of others,” feeds different forms of “intolerance and violence,” and “longs for a Church that imposes power.” He doesn’t give examples, however, these features are typical of the Francis Church.
Religious fundamentalism constitutes for Ojea “a great obstacle” preventing “in our own Argentina” that Francis is read in a direct way and “his fruitful magisterium” can be received.
“Our people have heard much more opinions and qualifications about him than what he expresses directly through his [confused] words and writings," he lamented.
Thus, Ojea is convinced that “we must continually unmask these two extremes without allowing ourselves to be overcome by a secularism that makes the Church worldly nor by an integrism that prevents it from inculturating itself and properly reading the signs of the times." However, the wimpish Argentinean bishops will do nothing.
Evidently, Ojea suffers from complotism.
Picture: © Oscar Vicente Ojea, CC BY-SA, #newsEgdtcbzljr
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