Caracas, Venezuela, Feb 24, 2010 / 20:59 pm
In his message for Lent 2010, the Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, said the political and social crisis that Venezuela is currently experiencing “is due to the sinister presence of sin in our society and in ourselves.”
In his statement, the cardinal first explained the importance of living out “the Lenten practices of prayer, mortification or penance and almsgiving.
He urged Venezuelans to realize that “the root of the difficulties we are experiencing lies in a profound moral crisis, that is, in the sinister presence of sin in our society and in ourselves.” He then gave examples of the sins that society faces: “ violence, hatred, injustice, aggression, delinquency, crime, sexual disorders, religious indifference.”
“The corruption that is manifested in various ways in the social life of the country, in the area of sexuality, in the economic sphere, in the political sphere, is a manifestation of that moral crisis,” he warned.