Through a letter published on the Catholic news website El Clero.co, its director, the priest Victor Ricardo Moreno, said that the protester was welcome to share in the temple, but criticized her protest by calling it irrational and a tantrum.
“Your teenage drama grotesquely trampled on the sacred work of the people, because you don't love the Colombian people. And, until you love the people, you cannot call yourself an artist again; for now you are alone in the vandal level. You can get out of there,” he said in the letter.
However, she pointed out that although it was a fact of intolerance, she could enter the Catholic churches whenever she did, since there is no discrimination in the Catholic faith.
“First of all I want to remind you that, despite what happened, you will always be welcome to our temples, - also with your entourage. We do not discriminate or promote class struggle,” he said.
The religious assured that within this religion they have been seeking to help humanity for thousands of years, and he affirmed that with his protest it sought to end injustices, other injustices.
“The injustices I denounce don't take four, twenty or fifty years, they take thousands of years, because every generation returns and commits them. Above all, the naive impetuous generations that delude, seek to end some injustices with other injustices... What are people absurd, right?” , he reproached.
She criticized her that the place where she had broken into was a place where people give each other hugs of peace, while she promoted violence and abortion.
“In the place you desecrated, we give each other a hug of peace with our loved ones and with people we haven't seen before, because we are artisans of peace. On the other hand, you may have been indoctrinated, telling you that everyone else is your enemy, that all that remains is to hate and that killing is a right, even your own child from your womb. Peace reigns in our temples. Your message is not for a temple,” he said.
In addition, he questioned him that they carried briefcases in which they did not carry food or books for the most needy, unlike that cathedral where there was food for the poor.
“They carried backpacks. What did you carry in them? I'm sure it wasn't food for poor families. As you could see in the cathedral, in every temple we have a basket in front of the altar where you can leave and take food for the most needy; can you understand it? , or were you also ordered to carry weapons in your backpack to accompany your hatred?” , he said.
The protest
On Sunday, March 20, a group of five hooded men interrupted a eucharist that was being celebrated in the Primate Cathedral of Bogotá, with harangues questioning the speech of peace and love professed by the Catholic Church, which caused the rejection of different political, ecclesial and citizen sectors who called for respect religious celebrations and the venues where they are held.
After the controversy, on La W Radio, they managed to talk to Simona, the leader of the hooded group that entered the Cathedral and in space explained her position both in front of the church and for the presidential elections that Colombia will face on May 29.
The leader of the performance pointed out that the decision to abruptly enter the religious precinct, due to an emotional impulse: “It was our hearts outraged by so much pain and such lack of empathy in the face of so many deaths that died in the streets, that have not had social guarantees” and added that “This is the power that also has art, has the ability to influence unconventional spaces to draw attention to certain denunciations. Art does not ask permission to attend a certain space.”
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