POLICY

Ángel Rossi on elections: "Messages of hope are missing; there is tenement gossip"

The archbishop of Córdoba spoke about his upcoming formal appointment as cardinal by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica, and about the electoral process for next October 22 in Argentina.

  • 03/10/2023 • 08:58

The archbishop of Córdoba, Ángel Rossi, who this Saturday will be formally named cardinal by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica, asserted this Thursday that "there is a lack of messages of hope towards the people in the campaign" ahead of next year's general elections. October 22 in Argentina and lamented that "verbiage abounds" and "meaningful words are missing" in a framework in which "what he called "great politics" has been "lost" and in which "tenement gossip" predominates. ". "Part of what we are seeing in Argentina is the result of a very great disenchantment and hopelessness," considered the archbishop, a Jesuit, in an interview with Télam in the Vatican, in which, however, he stressed that it must " move forward, with hope despite reality."