A few weeks ago, the representative of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, gave an interview to La Vanguardia. Then, after highlighting the lack of parliamentary support from the government, he lamented that President Sánchez had gone along with a motion of confidence, which would otherwise have delayed the elections. It was an intervention of political criticism which aroused suspicion. Although it is common for church officials to become involved in politics, they may use less blatant avenues. The previous pope, who only wanted to take the time to speak, sometimes focused on issues of humanitarian concern and automatically earned the contempt of some political representatives who led him to strip him of his official tunics to demean him, with contempt, at the call of Ciudadano Bergoglio. El Ciudadano ArgüelloHowever, every few days we have a golden opportunity to re-engage, and with good reason, in the political visions of our country. In Badalona, the mayor managed to have the police evict a former abandoned institute where 400 people were surviving. He also left with Chabacana Chulería, convinced that the electoral revenue from such an important measure was well worth spending a little money.
It’s easy to be one sheriff unscrupulously against those who have no means of defending themselves. The weakest are the perfect rivals to stand out well in the photo. However, it takes more courage to confront, for example, the real estate and tourism mafias, who are the real enemies of big cities. Ahí the trump cards are crumpled. Furthermore, the expulsion that occurred the week before Christmas allowed Luis Argüello another political intervention. Over the following days, torrential rains fell in Badalona and the surrounding area, forcing those expelled a second time from another temporary encampment to take refuge under road bridges. It is difficult to find a scene more Christmassy than this, which better resembles all those that children taught us to give a human meaning to commercial holidays. Badalona also competes for the title with the prestige of putting up the largest Christmas tree in the country. The inconsistency of the prenavideño mayor could point out, if it existed, the Herod Prize, an award that the Episcopal Conference would award to distinguish those who least have to face the challenge of poverty and inequality in its territory.
Now that it is said that religion has been made fashionable in books, films and musicals, nothing is more distressing for those who command the cow of the new mysticism in the face of the cruel and desolate reality which surrounds us in the face of general indifference. The ecclesiastical silence was broken in Badalona when a parish offered, under intense rain, the possibility of sheltering some of the sinners for a few days. To stop it, a group of vecinos came forward against it, paralyzing the refuge and managing to block the Pilgrims of God, heading towards nowhere. So much for the movement of social aid entities, some like Cáritas, and the voice of some priests who have actually been involved in making easy speeches fall to the naked eye. It is time to get involved, of course, but perhaps less in the battle of parties and much more in the hostile environment in which today’s humanism is welcomed every time it aspires to be trampled on without remedy in all the dignity of this world.
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