Vatican envoy’s trip to Aguililla a pointed message to Mexico’s bishops Papal nuncio told a meeting of bishops that they do nothing for the Catholic community
Published on Thursday, April 22, 2021
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The Vatican’s envoy to Mexico has chastised the country’s bishops for being estranged from the faithful, according to a religion expert.
In an interview with the newspaper
Milenio, Elio Masferrer said that Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio to Mexico, “read the riot act” to bishops at a recent meeting of Catholic Church leaders.
Coppola told them that their administration of the church has become a disaster, Masferrer said. The papal nuncio gave the bishops “a pull on their ears,” telling them that it’s not their job to be “comfortably seated” in their offices, he said.
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We are trapped here. A Mexican town isolated by cartel terror Patrick J. McDonnell, Cecilia Sánchez © Provided by The LA Times Msgr. Franco Coppola, the Vatican s diplomat to Mexico, greets people as he arrives to meet families and celebrate Mass in Aguililla, a town that has been cut off by warring cartels in Michoacan state, Mexico. (Armando Solis / Associated Press)
The town of Aguililla, situated deep in one the Mexico s most lawless regions, made news this month when eight headless bodies were dumped there.
Three weeks later, it is at war. Hardly anybody enters or leaves at least not without the permission of rival gangs that have blocked the roads.