The residents of La Magdalena, a small town of 500 inhabitants in the province of León, are up in arms against their parish priest, José Riesco. The reason is that the priest prevented the parents of Ángel, a young man of only 24 years who died days ago in a traffic accident, from being able to speak at his funeral, claiming that “it was not a Protestant homily”, in the words of María, boy’s mother
This Tuesday, several television programs have echoed the complaints of these neighbors, who claim that the priest is “a scoundrel, an arrogant person who has no heart.” They say that this is not the first time that an incident like this has happened, and not only in La Magdalena, but also in other surrounding towns. Mañaneros, from TVE, has spoken with the young man’s mother, who clarifies that “his girlfriend did read a small text” while she could not.
What happened at young Ángel’s funeral was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The neighbors ask for his expulsion, while the bishopric of León has defended the parish priest. “We regret the media noise surrounding some facts that are easy to understand,” the diocese wrote in a statement. “The parish priest is an archpriest and everything is due to a regrettable confusion,” they said in Mañaneros.
As another neighbor highlights in TardeAR, from Telecinco, more signatures have already been collected asking for his dismissal than there are inhabitants in the population, about 2,850 at the time of writing the report, and whose number “varies during the day” according to the testimony collected. for the program.
The program presented by Ana Rosa Quintana connected this Tuesday with La Magdalena to speak live with Ángel’s neighbors and relatives. Specifically, the communicator has conveyed her condolences to Maribel, the young man’s grandmother, who has thanked Quintana for her express support in the face of such a complicated situation for them.
“I know that injustice bothers you a lot, and I just want to ask you to help us so that this does not happen again. What happened to my grandson was a shame, what this priest did to call him something is intolerable. This It cannot be repeated under any circumstances, because in the parish next door there is another priest who is incomparable,” he assured.
