Denver Newsroom, Jul 22, 2022 / 17:47 pm
With the recent death of three homeless Venezuelan immigrants who perished in a shipping container, Archbishop Fernando Chomali of Concepción, Chile, said that “Chile is sick” and proposed a way to cure its serious illness.
“As a human being, as a Chilean grandson of migrants, as a Catholic and the archbishop of Concepción, I feel shame and helplessness for the death of three Venezuelans in a container as they were trying to get some warmth,” the prelate said in a letter sent July 19 to the director of the El Mercurio newspaper.
“It’s painful to see the indifference to this news, which confirms that society is seriously ill. It’s so schizophrenic that migrants dying in subhuman conditions and advertising that encourages even buying apartments in Miami coexist in the most natural way,” the archbishop wrote.
The prelate lamented that “we have become accustomed to people dying in the street of cold and hunger and, on the other hand, ostentation in all its forms.”