Posted on 11/16/2022 6:56:35 PM PST by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – Auxiliary Bishop Vicente de Paula Ferreira of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte was threatened by an armed man after a Mass on November 12 in the suburban city of Moeda, in a sign of the political violence facing members of the clergy in Brazil.
Since former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a run-off vote on Oct. 30, similar incidents have taken place in different parts of the country.
Ferreira, an outspoken critic of the rightwing Bolsonaro, left the church after Mass and was approached by a stranger who reportedly was not part of the parish. The Brazilian press reported that the perpetrator is allegedly a Bolsonaro supporter.
Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, who is also the President of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), released a statement in which he said that Ferreira was a “victim of intolerance, of the lack of a minimal sense of conviviality, of cowardly disrespect.”
Judicial measures are already being taken so that the hostilities aimed at a servant of the Gospel, in the exercise of his mission, will not remain unpunished,” de Azevedo said in the statement.
Although the presidential election is now over, the political battles are continuing in Latin America’s most populous nation.
Many of Bolsonaro’s supporters refuse to accept the results of the election, and accuse the Superior Electoral Court of having committed fraud in favor of Lula. However, no evidence of voting irregularity has been provided.
Shortly after the result was announced, groups of Bolsonarists organized dozens of blockades on highways across the country, which were finally cleared on Nov. 10. In addition, several supporters of Bolsonaro are camping in front of military bases in different cities and asking the armed forces to stage a coup d’état.
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Brazilians have more balls than other South Americans or North Americans.
SPJNK
The first Bishop of Brazil was sought by colonists who were tired of hearing Franciscans and DOminicans go on about the evils of mistreating the natives.
THe Bishop introduced more accommodating secular clergy.
In a providential manifestation of poetic justice, the Bishop was eventually shipwrecked, falling into the hands of the natives, who ate him.
The Holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways, both through the laity and even the unbaptized. Perhaps we should re-introduce such native practices. Who am I to judge?
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