Gustavo Gutierrez, the eminent liberation theologian, last Saturday represented the diocese of Lima at the rite of ordination of Lima’s new archbishop in the city’s cathedral.
“The Church of Lima,” said the elderly priest to the nuncio, Mgr Nicola Girasoli, “asks you to ordain Fr Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio as bishop.” With these words Fr Gutiérrez launched the final stage of Pope Francis’ revolution for the Church in the Peruvian capital. Fr Gutiérrez had been effectively driven out of the diocese by the previous archbishop, Juan Luis Cipriani.
After the ordination, with Archbishop Castillo prostrate before the nuncio, the congregation sang the litany of the saints, invoking the prayers of St Oscar Romero and the Peruvian saints, Toribio of Mogrovejo, Lima’s second archbishop, Martin de Porres, and Rose of Lima.
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