Posted on 04/20/2012 7:31:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
Caracas, Venezuela, Apr 19, 2012 / 02:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Retired Bishop Eduardo Herrera Riera of Carora, who is suffering from terminal cancer, called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to repent of his “injustices” against the country.
“As a Head of State, you have the most gravest of obligations, first and foremost, to procure the peace and security of Venezuelans,” the bishop said in an open letter April 9. “Unfortunately, you have been very weak and negligent in confronting this most serious of problems.”
The controversial president has battled illness himself in recent years, traveling last month to Cuba in order to have a potentially cancerous tumor removed.
Bishop Herrera listed several ethical concerns as well as human rights complaints against the Venezuelan leader and urged him to repair damage caused if he wants to share in “eternal happiness in the Kingdom of our Lord and God.”
Below is the full text of the bishops' letter:
To Mr. Hugo Chavez Frias, President of the Republic.
I write you as the elderly 84-year-old bishop emeritus of Carona, suffering from the serious side-effects of powerful chemotherapy and radiation, which has left me extremely weak because of my weight loss of more than 35 pounds.
I am a walking skeleton unable to move on my own, and I must use a wheelchair constantly. All of this makes me certain that my death draws near and should make you understand the sincerity and healthy desire that move me to speak to you as clearly as possible…
There is a phrase Jesus uses in the Gospel, which, by the way, Cardinal Urosa just mentioned on television, which says: “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Heavenly Father.” You have displayed..........
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Universal message for all Christians, not just despots.
Try Luke 24:47
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Why hasn’t Hugo checked out yet? Is there some more free Cuban health care he could get to hurry things along?
Repent? Hugo Chavez? Probably not, but more importantly — who will succeed Dear Leader? [Will the cure for Chavez be worse than the disease of Chavez?]
Chavez will become more humble as his time of death draws near. Funny how that happens sometimes.
Freakin’ die already, Chavez.
Freakin’ die already, Chavez.
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