00:00We have joined today Clareton Missionary Human Rights Offenders and members of the Clareton Delegation to the United Nations, Henry
00:08Ramirez Soler.
00:10Welcome, Henry. Now you hear me?
00:13Yes, thank you.
00:15Thank you very much.
00:16Thank you for being here with us in Telesur English.
00:21Thank you for inviting me.
00:22Yeah, well, the Pope has warned about depending on social polarization across Latin America, calling on the Church to become
00:32a force for peace.
00:34How does this message resonate within the region's current political and social climate?
00:42The Pope message contemplates across Latin America.
00:47Today, different expressions of the Catholic Church are accompanied by communities affected by the mining conflict, the human rights conflict,
00:59and extractivist activities, particularly in different countries, Panama, Colombia, across Central America.
01:07The Church in the Bays have a very powerful right, little by little also.
01:15The Episcopal Conference are becoming a strong public voice.
01:20They are calling society to recognize the values of solidarity, fraternity, and social justice.
01:30For example, the last week in Brazil, some group of bishops called to take conscience about this reality of polarization.
01:42The Church must also help people discern and resist political discourses that misuse the religious language to justify inequality and
01:57exclusion.
01:58Today, the hegemony power to justify inequality and exclusion.
02:02Today, the hegemony power uses the religious language for the reason the Catholic Church takes a place very important.
02:11Display pressure from the conservative sector that would prefer the Church to remain in silence.
02:19The Church in Latin America is increasing and raising the prophetical role.
02:25Begin a source of peace means having the courage to speak out against injustice, defend human rights, human dignity, and
02:38protect our common home.
02:40Yeah, and there is also a very important topic that is that Pope Leo XIV started his tour around Latin
02:51America in worldwide countries known by the low Catholic population.
03:00How can we explain it because he started his tour around Latin America in worldwide, knowing that the 33%
03:10of the population is Catholic, but even a smaller part of this number are the ones that predict it and
03:19practice it?
03:21So, the Pope Leo XIV is not only for the Catholic people.
03:28When we talk about the justice, the fraternity, the solidarity, it's not only for the Catholic people.
03:39This value is important for us.
03:41The first thing to start in this country is to remind the social issues is important for the Catholic Church.
03:51It's a connection with the Catholic, with the realities in our countries.
03:57For this reason, this visit became an important issue in the political moment right now.
04:07Yeah, and also the second stage will be Argentina, a country that preserves a strong memory of his predecessor Pope
04:15Francis, and that also marked by the economic hardship and social tensions.
04:20How important is this visit precisely in Argentina current political and economic context?
04:27It's in the same way, Pope Leo brings a message of hope, I mean Argentina's economic and social crisis.
04:37But this is indeed not a naive hope.
04:41It is a hope that calls us to build concrete social and political alternatives.
04:49We need an alternative to an economic model that destroys nature and their minds, human dignity.
04:59This visit is also a tribute to Pope Francis and Lee's legacy.
05:07He calls for a different economy, one that plays human beings and the care of the creation is in the
05:18center.
05:18It is an opportunity to reaffirm his prophetic message on climate change, social justice, and the need of transforming our
05:30economic system.
05:31Ultimate hope must become a commitment to building a more justice, human, and sustainable society.
05:42Yeah, and why do you think Pope Leo XIV would choose Latin America as the destination of one of his
05:52first international tours a little over a year and into his publishing?
05:57Pope Leo XIV's visit to Asia, Africa, and Europe, and Spain, already revealed the direction of this message.
06:10Latin America is another important part of this global vision.
06:17He wants the shore to become an instrument of peace in a divided world.
06:25This international journey reflects a desire to build peace across culture, religion, and continents.
06:37But peace requires addressing difficult realities.
06:43This includes respect for the culture and religious diversity.
06:49The consequences of colonialism, economic and ethnic conflict, and growing social and economic inequalities.
06:59I believe this visit to Latin America reinforces this global message.
07:07Peace is not simply the absence of word.
07:12It requires justice, dialogue, reconciliation, and respect for the human dignity.
07:21And also, how do you think the local community and secular authorities will respond to the Pope Leo's call for
07:31hope and dialogue during this visit in Uruguay?
07:37Yes, when the people have different crises, some message who analyze the situation, the crisis economy, and then propose the
07:53alternative is unhopped.
07:55For the reason, I think, for the people who suffer in this crisis economy situation, it's a very good message.
08:04For the other people who are responsible for this crisis, it's unhopped.
08:11Because we need to change, transform the world.
08:16The crisis in the world, and the economic crisis, is an call for a look what is the best way
08:26for the human being.
08:29Yes, and one of the most significant steps of the tour will be the Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazon.
08:38How important is going to be this visit to the Amazonian peoples?
08:42What is this visit one of the priorities of Pope Leo of the 14th?
08:48This visit to Peru and the Peruvian Amazon region is not a simple, a personal choice.
08:56Because, of course, Pope Leo lived in Peru so many years, and then he had a strong feeling, a connection
09:07with this country.
09:08But if it is this visit to the Amazon region, it is also a commitment to continue the path initiated
09:19by Pope Francis.
09:21The Synodot of the Amazonian established important pastoral guidelines.
09:27These include care for the creation, human rights, environmental protection, and the life of the shore in the Amazon.
09:37The Apostolic Exhortation, Querida Amazonia, is a message for the whole church, but especially for the church in the Amazon.
09:50The creation of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazonia, Se Ama, is also an important step in the journey.
10:01A small explanation, because the hierarchy in the church is only the bishop, but Se Ama is an ecclesial conference.
10:12It's bishop, priest, religious woman, indigenous people, farmers people, and then is an assembly to guide the church in the
10:25Amazon region.
10:26Therefore, this visit has a profound meaning.
10:31It is an opportunity to listen to the Amazonian people, recognize their rights, defend their territories, and confirm the church's
10:43commitment to protect life and the common home.
10:48Yes, and there is also, what is the view of the leaders that can take their views in terms of
11:01Pope Leo's visit 14 to Latin America, specifically to the countries that he is visiting?
11:09Yes, some leaders in Latin America have a special opinion to Leo the 14, because he has a critical view
11:24about the situation in our countries.
11:27The Pope Leo knows very well what's happening in Latin America, so he knows what is the bad political issues
11:38in Latin America.
11:40So, for this reason, some political leaders take this stance for don't criticize Pope Leo in the public, but they
11:52have the difference.
11:53But the social movement and the social movement and the social movement have an ally for the resistance in Latin
12:06America.
12:07Yeah, and also, what is the significance of the Pope's scheduled visits to local sanctuaries and communities that are in
12:15vulnerable neighborhoods?
12:16Yes, this is not a symbolical meaning, because he knows the reality.
12:26When he visits the place where the people suffer the cause of the crisis economic, the Pope Leo sends a
12:40message to their political leaders.
12:43Four, became a real leader political, a fraternity political, because in Latin America, so many political are involved in the
12:56corruption.
12:56When the Pope Leo visits this special place, it's a message for give.
13:04In one side, give the hope for the people who resist in this place.
13:09And then also, a message for the political leader and the governor for saying what happened here.
13:17We need to transform this injustice reality for another reality more dignified for the people.
13:26Also, what do you think that this visit from Pope Leo, not in Uruguay, but it could be in Argentina,
13:36could rise any tensions and political polarization in the country?
13:44Oh, yes, it's true. In Argentina, they have a political crisis, an economic crisis, but the visit is a moment
13:56for opening dialogue with the different sectors.
14:04It's an opportunity for the country.
14:07It's an opportunity for the country to open the conversation about this crisis.
14:11So, always the Pope Leo want to be a bridge to give an open for the dialogue.
14:23So, in Argentina, right now, it's an opportunity for talking more about what happened and found the ways to transform
14:34the situation and then for go ahead and justice society.
14:41So, always the people are still here on our way to panic.
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