AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Drug is not lightning in the middle of a dark night" says Mgr. Uriona

Monday, 7 December 2015 area crisis youth bishops

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Villa de la Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the issue of drugs should be fought with prevention. Drug is not lightning in the middle of a dark night, but is caused by family situations of abandonment because of the problems of this society": said His Exc. Mgr. Adolfo Armando Uriona, F.D.P., Bishop of the Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto, speaking to the press after the consecration of the new Bishop of Añatuya, on Saturday, December 5.
Mgr. Uriona recalled the last document of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina which condemns the terrible situation of drug trafficking in the country. "We Bishops saw that there was no intention of fighting drug trafficking. On the other hand I think that unfortunately the social situation that we are living in the postmodern world, where there is much poverty and a lot of confusion among the youth contributes to this phenomenon", stressed the Bishop.
"The Church has its faults, too – said Mgr. Uriona - because it was not missionary as the Pope wanted it to be, it did not have a missionary attitude". (CE) (Agenzia Fides 07/12/2015)