Bishops from Uruguay visited the Vatican over the course of eight days and met with the departments of the Holy See. The main meeting was this one with Pope Francis, in a very casual manner. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u00ec's too small to be Uruguayan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The pope joked with Msgr. Fuentes, who spoke about the Virgin Mary in the last synod. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are finishing the Marian Year on December 8...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou are talking about the Virgin...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYes, right?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Before sitting down with the bishops, Pope Francis greeted the lay group who had joined them on the visit. <\/p>\n \u201cI'll let you all...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThank you for greeting us, welcoming us...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou can go have a beer. Or a cappuccino.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere's no mate...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTonight, yes, right now, no.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Later, they began a closed-door dialogue with the pope, in which many issues involving Uruguay were discussed. <\/p>\n We spoke about that encounter with Cardinal Daniel Sturla, after one of his last meetings in Rome. <\/p>\n CARD. DANIEL STURLA<\/strong> The Episcopal Conference of Uruguay says the conversation with the pope lasted more than two hours. Pope Francis listened to them and advised them to continue supporting young people and families. He also told them not to be afraid to propose the Christian vision to society. <\/p>\n CARD. DANIEL STURLA<\/strong> During the meeting, the pope joked with Msgr. Scarrone and told him that he'd travel to Uruguay one day. <\/p>\n \u201cAre you good?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGood, thank God, 86 years old.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou look good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHere is my successor, who I ordained a priest. This is a sign that the Virgin is awaiting you next year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI don't know when, but I'm going to go...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n CARD. DANIEL STURLA<\/strong> Cardinal Daniel Sturla and the other bishops from Uruguay are returning to their country satisfied, with the pope's blessing. <\/p>\n Pope Francis received this gift from the bishops, a raw wool blanket, artisanally woven in the name of the episcopate, with the colors of the national flag. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is good wool...!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 25, 2017. In Uruguay, the most agnostic country in the region, \u201cWe defend our vision, but we try to meet those who don't share our ideas halfway,\u201d Cardinal Sturla explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EodnlrcMMDU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/buruguayeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/buruguayint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Archbishop of Montevideo <\/strong>
\n 'Pope Francis knows us well, but he was interested in the issues we were raising, the big ones that worry us: the social fragmentation that our country is experiencing and gender ideology, which is a theme that greatly worries the pope.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Archbishop of Montevideo <\/strong>
\n \u201cThe Church continues to fight the great fights in defense of each human being's dignity \u2013 the family, life \u2013 in a society in which abortion is legal or there is so-called \u201cmarriage equality,\u201dbut defending those views doesn't stop us from wanting to be a Church that meets the other person halfway, specifically promoting what Pope Francis calls the culture of encounter.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\n Archbishop of Montevideo <\/strong>
\n 'Pope Francis can visit all of the countries that border Argentina, but he can't go to Uruguay and not go to Argentina. Therefore, we are united, and when the time comes, the pope will decide. Our hope is certainly that it is next year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n