Dear Pope:
You argue against walls, against states, and in favor of the universal church which stands as one against the affront of nation-states, which separate humanity and divide.
Yet, the church in Mexico speaks of traitors to the nation ... not to the church.
STOP.
The traitors are those who work against the interests of their country. In Mexico - it would be a government who pushes the poor to flee - they would be the traitors. Please advise your diocese papers accordingly.
March 26, 2017
MEXICO CITY (Reuters)
- Mexicans who help build U.S. President Donald Trump's planned border wall
would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic
Archdiocese of Mexico said on Sunday, turning up the heat on a simmering
dispute over the project.
In a provocative
editorial, the country's biggest Archdiocese sought to increase pressure on the
government to take a tougher line on companies aiming to profit from the wall,
which has strained relations between Trump and the Mexican government.
"Any company intending to invest in the wall of the fanatic
Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners should be
considered traitors to the homeland," said the editorial in Desde la fe,
the Archdiocese's weekly publication.
On Tuesday, Economy
Minister Ildefonso Guajardo warned firms it would not be in their "interests"
to participate in the wall. But the editorial accused the government of
responding "tepidly" to those eyeing the project for business.
A spokesman for the Archdiocese, which centers on Mexico City and is presided
over by the country's foremost Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Norberto Rivera,
said the editorial represented the
views of the diocese.
Trump says he wants to
build the wall to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S. southern
border. He has pledged Mexico will pay for the wall, which the Mexican
government adamantly says it will not do.
The Desde la fe
editorial, which was published online, said the barrier would only feed
prejudice and discrimination.
"In practice,
signing up for a project that is a serious affront to dignity is shooting
yourself in the foot," it wrote. Mexican cement maker Cemex has said it is
open to providing quotes to supply raw materials for the wall but will not take
part in the bidding process to build it.
Grupo Cementos de
Chihuahua, another company specializing in construction materials, has also
signaled readiness to work on the project.
(Reporting by Dave Graham and Lizbeth Diaz;
Editing by Peter Cooney)
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