Last Sunday, the archbishop of Córdoba, Angel Rossi, during his homily for the beginning of Advent (the preparation for Christmas) he reflected on the crisis suffered by retired. “Our grandparents, our old people, are in a hidden euthanasia“, he stated.
“Bayín”, who is one of the highest authorities of the Argentine Catholic Church, He emphasized: “This is the wait of a retiree who, instead of the joy of receiving a good retirement, must choose between eating or taking medication. It is the misery that we are experiencing. Our grandparents, our old people, are undergoing a hidden euthanasia. “You choose to eat, which means there are medications that are not received and, therefore, for many it is death.”
After hearing the news, Rossi provided a television report with a Córdoba channel, where he returned to what was said in the sermon: “Without knowing it, this slap of news came. It is the sadness of the groups most affected: grandparents, and on the other hand, children or young people with gambling addiction and online gambling.. When a society mistreats both sides, the young and the elderly, it is a sign of decadence and a sign that we have no future. “The most vulnerable are mistreated.”
In that sense, the first vice president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference insisted: “One does not invent, one sadly sees it on the street. Grandparents who buy 100 grams of meat to eat something during the week. In this aspect, with retirees their situation worsens. There are ways to control who receives medications. But “It cannot be a general rule that thousands of our grandparents fall into the trap.”
Cardinal Ángel Rossi: “Anything that threatens the well-being of our grandparents is very sad, it is filero”
Rossi extended the crisis to insecurity by maintaining that retirees “They can no longer go out in the afternoon to drink mate on the sidewalk” and that “at 5 in the afternoon they are locked with padlocks.” “Anything that threatens the well-being of our grandparents is very sad, it is filero”he added.
In turn, he used the phrase “covert euthanasia”, typical of Pope Francis, and denounced that “some medications bet on life, it is not a headache, it is not nonsense. There are other ways, not starting with the weak. Fishing for forms of corruption and cutting them is positive, but this is not dignified, it does not do us any good. If freedom is the proclamation, of course, we fully share. “It would be nice for a grandparent to have the freedom to eat or not eat.”
Finally, Rossi referred to the church’s social assistance and acknowledged: “It has increased considerably, it is not that it did not exist before, but it has become more acute. If you walk five blocks in the city (Córdoba capital) you see it, the same in the dining rooms. The dimension is worrying, painful. It also mobilizes us as a Church, that we leave certain comforts to take better care of people, it challenges us as men of the Church. “Don’t deny reality, it doesn’t help anyone.”
Source: Ambito
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