Church asks Sheinbaum to continue working for the construction of peace in the country

The primate archdiocese of Mexico urged the future president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to continue working to build peace in the country.

On June 20, two years after the murder of the Jesuit priests Javier Campos and Joaquín Mora in a temple in the Tarahumara mountains, the Catholic Church remembered Sheinbaum Pardo, who subscribed during the last electoral campaign to the so-called National Agenda for Peace. such as the Commitments for Peace, actions that emerged after more than a year of work with religious, academics and lay people to end violence in the country as the murder of the Jesuits had become a symbol of the thousands of victims of crime in Mexico.

After the June 2 elections in which Sheinbaum Pardo was the winner, the Catholic hierarchy asked the future president of Mexico for “concrete and sustained steps” towards a country with less violence.

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The artisanal work of building peace continues and we require concrete and sustained steps that will have to start, as Pope Francis points out in Fratelli Tutti, from approaching, expressing, listening to each other, looking at each other, getting to know each other, trying to understand each other, seeking points of contact, all that is summarized in the verb ‘dialogue’ (FT 198). This is the call that we make today: it is urgent to continue the dialogue between us and with those who signed the “Commitments for Peace”, such as the virtual candidate elected to the presidency of the Republic, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum” the editorial published this Sunday from the Catholic weekly Desde la Fe

The message of the archdiocese specifies that, as Pope Francis also points out in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti, we can “seek the truth together in dialogue, in calm conversation or in passionate discussion (…) that social dialogue that involves “the ability to respect the point of view of another, accepting the possibility that it contains some convictions or legitimate interests.”

The Catholic Church emphasized in its call to Sheinbaum Pardo that dialogue must be “enriched and illuminated with rational arguments, by a variety of perspectives, by contributions from diverse knowledge and points of view, and that does not exclude the conviction that it is possible reach elementary truths.”

For the Catholic Church, the crimes that occurred two years ago in the community of Cerocahui as well as all the pain of the victims of violence in Mexico, the disappearances and forced displacements “move and compromise”, so “there is no there is no final point in the construction of peace in a country, but it is a task that does not give up and that requires the commitment of everyone,” the editorial highlighted when endorsing the words of Pope Francis.

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