Given the statements issued by Pope Francis on a pastoral visit to Canada on the pilgrimage of penance where he apologizes for the acts of sexual abuse and destruction of indigenous cultures to force them to become Christians, events that occurred in boarding schools run by the Catholic Church, he expresses Francis the following; “I think in particular of the sexual abuse committed against minors and vulnerable people, crimes that require strong actions and an irreversible fight, I would like to ask all the victims for forgiveness again,” joining the request for forgiveness requested by the original peoples of our America for the theft of their lands, the prohibition of their cultural practices, the extermination of their communities.”
For the communities of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the United States, in Europe and in other parts of the world where they are inspired by the spirituality of liberating ecumenical Christianity, this jolt of conscience also seems to pose a revaluation of the efforts made by inspirational movements based on the ecumenical spirituality of liberation theology. It is necessary for Communities such as FUNDALATIN, the VENEZUELA ECUMENICAL NETWORK and IDHES to continue training from an ethical perspective in the communities, in order to resume the liberating path from a church that promotes life, that discerns about the contribution to be made in the current situation of possible change, finding the signs of the times in this hour.
Starting from a look at ourselves and the situation in which we live, it invites us to an attitude of listening, of prayer, but also of determined commitment to the construction of justice and peace, which begins in our daily lives through gestures against injustices and inequalities, prejudices and discriminations, for attitudes of compassion towards the poor and small, of struggle for inclusive social policies and for a new international order. This cry that expresses the feelings of the excluded peoples begins to be a cry of the Liberation Church, as a spiritual contribution from the mestizo continent of hope. Today the challenge for the liberating church is to continue living in fraternity and announce everything that generates life and life in abundance.
By celebrating with the peoples of the Great Homeland the independence of Bolivia 08.06.1825, the Liberating Spirituality Communities join the commemoration of the second year of Easter of Pedro Casaldáliga, 08.06.2021. His poem is still present “This Great Homeland, more than a ready-made Homeland, is a utopian Homeland… the Continent of Utopia.
We are the land of that flower of ours defended by the Mayan people, we are,
The Great Homeland of Bolívar, Our America of Martí and Sandino, the Morning Soul of
Guevara, the Thanks to the Life of Violeta Parra, the South American Cantata of Mercedes
Sosa, the utopian collectivity- with luminous names and anonymous crowds of those
500 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance”.