Posted on 05/26/2020 5:12:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROSARIO, Argentina - During a liturgy on Tuesday marking the revolution that led to Argentina’s independence, the cardinal of Buenos Aires issued a strong message of support for the nationwide measures imposed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
“We all know that defending the people means an economic meltdown. It would be sad if we opted for the opposite,” said Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, handpicked by Pope Francis to replace him as archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Speaking during a Te Deum - a traditional Church service for thanksgiving - the cardinal referred to the pandemic as “a virus that blows everything up in the air and forces us to look back at what is essential.”
“A caring look should lead us to share with those who have less than us,” Poli said, and then thanked the work of all those who leave their homes in the midst of the pandemic to fight against the disease.
“With their silent and daily sacrifices, they are the ones who are writing honorable and moving pages in the history of the nation. They are part of a crusade for life, valued by those of us who are at home and depend on them.”
The comments came three days after Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced that the restrictions put in place in March 20 will continue at least until June 7.
Argentina so far has 12,063 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 452 deaths.
Close to 90 percent of the cases of COVID-19 are in Buenos Aires, and both the ruling party and the opposition have worked closely to try to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Sounds like Argentina is getting ready to default on its debts... again. They’re probably on the phone with Bergoglio lobbying him to get his globalist cronies to secure an IMF bailout.
Oops, posted with doing any research... turns out Argentina already began defaulting last Friday.
Read My Lips...No More Argentinian Popes!
Cardinal is uneducated, dumb, or being paid.
This moronic cardinal is either falling into a trap set by the left or he’s helping them to lay the trap.
The trap is to describe lockdowns as a choice between “lives” and “the economy”.
Is going to church “the economy”?
Is watching your kid play soccer “the economy”?
Is having friends over for dinner “the economy”?
Is going on a train or plane to visit your dying grandmother “the economy”?
All of these things a re prohibited by the lockdowns in the name of “saving lives”.
All of these things collectively are “life”.
But those who want the lockdowns to continue don’t want to discuss “saving lives” vs. “living our lives”.
they create a false choice between money and life, and so they call everything you do once you leave your lockdown shelter as “the economy”.
even moronic cardinals are lumping Masses into “the economy”.
I asked him about Brazil and Covid-19. He answered that the children don't have enough to eat...a much worse problem.
It makes OUR problems seem pretty small in comparison.
Evidently the Cardinal is just fine with people starving.
He was chosen by Pope Frances the Red. You get one guess and the first one doesn’t count.
The Argentinian economy is barely alive so doing anything that will further limit the economy is going to cost lives.
In a country where the people are eating their pets and gangs are guarding garbage dumpsters as their territory anything that will slow the already crawling economy down should be avoided at all cost.
The same false choice Marxist everywhere offer. Do what we say or die.
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