Javier Baeza, priest of Entrevías (Madrid, Spain): "I would like the next Pope to be a woman or gay"
"Structures and taboos must be broken. Look how precious and revolutionary it would be if the person looking out from the balcony in St. Peter's Square was a woman, a man with his children, or a gay man." Word from Javier Baeza, parish priest of the San Carlos Borromeo pastoral center in Madrid, disciple there of the emblematic priest Enrique de Castro, recently deceased, who, in an interview on Cadena Ser microphones, assured that "we have to change the structures of church ".
"A priest has to worry about people's problems . We have gone to support the protests so that they do not close the Rayo field and I have suspended our Sunday celebration to, for example, accompany the group of the Christian Women's Revolt. That is not It has to generate no contradiction, we are celebrating life in another space," says Baeza when asked by journalist Mara Torres when he talks about his role as a religious.
"To whom does the Church have to ask forgiveness first? To the poor, to children who are victims of abuse or to women," they asked him. "I think the poor, because they are the majority, but the three realities are disastrous. And I think that if we were more consistent with the Gospel of Jesus, things would be different ."
Baeza also points out his wish that "the Pope would go to live somewhere else and leave those palaces because that is, indisputably, the symbol of power. That the churches be simple and that they be built from below, without anyone telling us." who has to preside. And I want to die screaming. We will achieve more or less things, but at least we will not remain silent in the face of so much disaster, so much hatred and so much ideologization . That is why I believe that the scream is very important," said the priest.
