Isabel Díaz Ayuso replies to Pope Francis and says that Catholicism brought “civilization and freedom” to America

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, on Tuesday was “surprised” by the words of the Pope Francisco apologizing to Mexico for the errors of the Church and thus speaking of a “legacy” that brought “Catholicism” and “freedom to the American continent.”

Speaking to reporters in Washington, Ayuso He thus responded to the question about the letter in which the pontiff asked Mexico learn from their past after acknowledging the mistakes of the Church.

“It surprises me that a Catholic who speaks Spanish speaks in this way of a legacy like ours, which was to bring Spanish precisely and, through the missions, Catholicism and therefore civilization and freedom to the American continent. I can say little more ”, Ayuso pointed out.

In his letter to Mexico, Francisco He indicated that “to strengthen the roots, it is necessary to re-read the past, taking into account both the lights and the shadows that have shaped the history of the country.”

“This retrospective look necessarily includes a process of purification of memory, that is, recognizing the mistakes made in the past, which have been very painful”, The pontiff pointed out, before admitting and apologizing for the mistakes made by the Catholic Church, as he assured that it had already been done on other occasions.

Isabel Diaz Ayuso He did not go into further evaluating the content of the letter, but he did emphasize his “surprise” that those words are those of a “Catholic” who speaks Spanish.

The Madrilenian president is in Washington on her third day of her trip to the United States, which began in New York on Sunday, where she made a closed defense of “Hispanicness” and charged against the “populisms and indigenisms” that according to her They have taken over several Latin American countries. “Indigenismo is the new communism,” he proclaimed.

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