Objecting

Jorge Fernández Menéndez did not think too highly of the Durango archbishop's performance this week, and sees it as indicative of a broader tendency of the Church to avoid confronting organized crime:

The problem, a grave one, with the declaration of the prelate González is that, first of all, he claimed to know where El Chapo lived and, second, he did it in a public forum, as a demand to the authorities that hadn't detained him despite knowing where he was. That explains the violent reaction of organized crime, which ended up costing the lives of two soldiers that really were working on locating Guzmán Loera. There hasn't been neither from the archbishop nor from the institutions of the Church even one declaration lamenting the event, as though it had no relation to the commentary.

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The strategy of washing hands, from many men in the Church, is not, cannot be, legitimate. Of course there are those who fulfill their responsibilities in many regions of the country and persecuted by the criminals. It came out this week that at least 300 priests were away from their respective parishes for that reason, and they, according the commitment made by the Secretariat of the Interior, should be protected. But the number of honest civilians, police, and soldiers (we are not talking about those who have died for being a part of one of the groups fighting and as a consequence of that activity) that have been murdered is much greater and this isn't often considered publicly by the Church.