Sometimes he also encounters
them, the poor slaves of paco, maybe on Sunday when he arrives on foot in the maze of some villa miseria, to say Mass,
baptize and confirm, to celebrate the patron saint. They see the white
collar in the distance, realize that it’s a priest, and then the
calls go up: “Hola padre, tienes un peso para la coca?”. For
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit, cardinal and archbishop of Buenos Aires
since 1998, it is the confirmation that in those parts “they tell the
truth”. Also when they want to leave the dark background of their
disastrous lives. So everything is fine, but let no one try to touch his
priest friends of Baires. Those who speak to him informally of the miracles
that the Lord performs down their way. It was him, Father Bergoglio, who
made public the death threats brought to the priests from those whom he
calls “los mercaderes de las tinieblas”, the merchants of
darkness.
Link (here) to a full interview of Pope Francis I from 2009 on the drug trade in Argentina
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