Buenos Aires (EFE) to question the capitalist world and all the inequalities that this generates”.
“When they ask me ‘tell me, who do you admire?’, I say Francisco; ‘Tell me, what is your example?’, it is Francisco, because he is the greatest moral leader the world has”, asserted Fernández in the Cabildo de Luján (Buenos Aires province), within the framework of the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis.
During his speech, the Argentine president acknowledged that he had been “angry” with the Catholic Church for many years, since he saw an institution “far removed from the poor” and their “needs”, something that changed with the arrival of Jorge Bergoglio at the headquarters of the Holy See.
“The most wonderful thing I feel is that it made me believe in the Church again, because I saw a Church far from wealth, far from the powerful, far from fortunes and close to the most needy, close to the dispossessed.” assured the Argentine head of state.
He agrees with the Pope in his criticism of inequality
In this sense, Fernández highlighted Pope Francis’ criticism of the “financial world” and the “capitalist world”, denunciations that he made, in his opinion, “not to fight with the rich, but to call attention to what that system was doing.” generating in terms of inequality and poverty”.
“The Pope once said that no one can be saved alone, and I always repeat it. When he said that no one can be saved alone, do you know what he was claiming? That we put individualism aside and start thinking with solidarity criteria. What saves us is solidarity”, stressed the president of Argentina.
The president signed, in that same act, the commitment “Not one kid, not one girl less for drugs”, a campaign promoted by the Federation of Homes of Christ, an entity promoted by then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, to help minors age with addiction problems
Pope Francis, 86, will celebrate a decade at the head of the Catholic Church next Monday, a period in which he has focused his efforts on reforming the Holy See to make it more transparent and effective, not without opposition from the most Vatican conservatives.