Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar 31, 2009 / 11:31 am
During his weekly program, "Keys to a Better World," Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata in Argentina rejected the "campaign of collective apostasy" launched in the country that is similar to one in Spain in which ex-Catholics or those who wish to renounce their faith present letters of apostasy to the diocese with the request that their names be removed from baptismal registries.
"Who are the people promoting this? And what is that bothers them in particular? What kind of ideology is behind this campaign, as it clearly has been very cleverly put together?" the archbishop asked.
"What they really want is to protest the public and cultural presence of the Church," he continued. "What really bothers these movements is that the Church still has influence on the Argentinean people… What bothers them specifically is that the faith has become culture and the purpose here is to uproot the faith from the culture in which the people live."