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The president of the Bishops’ Conference of Chile met with the president-elect of Chile on Jan. 16 to congratulate her for her election as head of the Chilean government. During the meeting, Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic of Rancagua, together with Cardinal Francisco Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago and other bishops, assured President-elect Michelle Bachelet of “the support of the church in all that pertains, because we believe that her government should be a very good government because that will be good for Chile.”
“From our perspective as pastors we are going to pray that the government be successful and so that hopefully with the new government, as we approach the bicentennial anniversary, even the most dispossessed people of our country can resolve their problems at least in part,” Bishop Goic added.
Bishop Goic also noted that Bachelet’s victory speech was “very inclusive and revealed part of her personal life and her interior attitude and profound capacity to love and forgive in response to the personal dramas she has experienced. The emotional memory of her father, whose closeness she said she felt, was also something that touched us deeply. For us that was an expression of faith,” he continued.
The president of the Bishops’ Conference of Chile met with the president-elect of Chile on Jan. 16 to congratulate her for her election as head of the Chilean government. During the meeting, Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic of Rancagua, together with Cardinal Francisco Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago and other bishops, assured President-elect Michelle Bachelet of “the support of the church in all that pertains, because we believe that her government should be a very good government because that will be good for Chile.”
“From our perspective as pastors we are going to pray that the government be successful and so that hopefully with the new government, as we approach the bicentennial anniversary, even the most dispossessed people of our country can resolve their problems at least in part,” Bishop Goic added.
Bishop Goic also noted that Bachelet’s victory speech was “very inclusive and revealed part of her personal life and her interior attitude and profound capacity to love and forgive in response to the personal dramas she has experienced. The emotional memory of her father, whose closeness she said she felt, was also something that touched us deeply. For us that was an expression of faith,” he continued.