ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 10:00 am
“We are destroying ourselves little by little,” the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico said in condemnation of the recent kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl, Camila, which was followed by a vigilante reprisal against the alleged perpetrators.
In an editorial in its weekly publication “Desde la Fe” (“From a Faith Perspective”), the Archdiocese of Mexico questioned: “How many more dead girls? How many more lynchings [mob justice]? How many more injustices? When will we understand that violence only generates more violence?”
Faced with this tragedy, which is evidence of “a number of the problems that have torn the social fabric,” the archdiocese urged the people to resist the feelings of “selfishness, fear, and bitterness, suffering and death, which close off the way to joy and hope.”
In the context of the celebration of Easter Sunday, the editorial reminded readers that “Jesus is alive, as is his message,” emphasizing that “no painful, selfish, and cruel event can guide our path, much less have the last word in the destiny of our country.”