Argentina: Archbishop blames murder of women on “disappearance of marriage”

[TomSea]

Archbishop blames murder of women on “disappearance of marriage”
Amid outcry over Argentina’s femicide rate, cleric says matrimony is now a “provisional bond”

The recent spate of highly publicized murders of women in Argentina is due to the decline of matrimony, an institution that has become a “provisional bond,” according to the Archbishop of La Plata, Héctor Aguer, one of the most conservative members of the Roman Catholic Church in the South American country.

This is not the first time Aguer has blamed supposed declining moral standards as the cause of Argentina’s woes. In August he railed against the “culture of fornication and petting” and the “records of young ladies who change boyfriends.”

In his latest outburst, given in an interview earlier this week on Argentinean station Radio Ciudad, the archbishop said that marriages “do not last,” and that this has led to “violence [against women] that didn’t exist before.”

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