AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cardinal Primate of Argentina meets with President Cristina Fernandez

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

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Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, will today, March 17, receive the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal Primate of Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio. The meeting comes after the call to peace and dialogue made by the local Catholic Church to the government and opposition (see Fides 10.03.2010).
Official sources have confirmed that the meeting will take place in the afternoon in the Oval Office at the executive headquarters. After the meeting last Wednesday of the Permanent Committee of the Argentinean Bishops' Conference, a document had been issued in which the bishops had asked the government and opposition leaders to "overcome the state of permanent confrontation" that the country is experiencing: "We urgently need to recreate the political and institutional conditions that enable us to overcome the state of permanent confrontation." Cardinal Bergoglio will be accompanied by the Vice-President of the Bishops' Conference, Bishop Luis Villaba, second vice president, Bishop José María Arancedo, and the spokesman, Father Jorge Oesterheld.
The authorities of the Bishops' Conference met yesterday, March 16, with the Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, and today, after meeting with President Fernandez, they will meet with the leader of the Argentinean Senate and Vice-President, Julio Cobos.
The government of Fernandez, who lost its parliamentary majority in elections in June 2009, retains a strong confrontation with the opposition, which rejects the use of central bank reserves for the payment of debts. In fact, the decree of the President was stopped by the Chief Justice. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 17/03/2010)