By Sebastián Lacunza
Editor-in-Chief
Catholic priest Carlos Mancuso receives a request to carry out the ‘cleansing’ of the Olivos presidential residence, but Macri ends up going another route.
It was the last days of December when Father Carlos Alberto Mancuso received a call at his La Plata home. A woman with the last name of Gómez said she was calling on behalf of President Mauricio Macri with a specific request: to carry out a “cleansing” at the Olivos presidential residence.
The conversation outlined, in a brief, generic fashion, the task at hand, although Mancuso, 81, was cautious. He didn’t know whether it was about an “infestation” (a possessed spirit moving about the home), a “demoniacal obsession” (a demon pursues a person, causing physical discomfort) or “a possession” (the malignant force is inside the human).
Each diabolical incursion requires specific therapies, so Gómez vowed to be in touch again to coordinate the logistics of a first visit.
Three days later, the Catholic priest from La Plata was contacted a second time by the supposed Macri emissary, but just to apologize. According to Gómez, the president had opted for a different kind of solution. “She was hurt and upset,” the exorcist remembered, seemingly without a desire to blame anyone. In the government, a high-ranking official denied there is anyone close to Macri who has Gómez as a last name.
Regardless, the “energy cleanses” took place in the Pink House and the Olivos presidential residence, according to a story published by journalist Santiago Fioriti in the Clarín daily on Thursday. Apparently, the bad energy that Macri believes Cristina Fernández de Kirchner left in the presidential offices was dealt with by Buddhists, although the identity of the cleansing hands were not confirmed.
“The Buddhists are at our (geographic) opposites, they’re from the Far East,” Mancuso said.
The priest meets with the faithful at the Hogar Sacerdotal de La Plata, located on Street 60, between 27 and 28. He has written numerous papers and given conferences in Miami and Colombia, but above all was a regular priest in the San José parish of the provincial capital, an archdiocese headed by the far conservative bishop Héctor Aguer. “I resigned due to my age, but with this recent avalanche of esoteric phenomena we have more work now than when we were parish priests,” he said with the temper that is required from someone who takes on the job of destroying Satan. “It’s a dark task — one has to deal with the forces of a malignant spirit.”
Although the Catholic hierarchy is not comfortable speaking up about exorcist practices, Mancuso’s name is often uttered in parishes. Pope Francis usually talks about the “demon” but in another sense, such as when he wrote in 2010, being archbishop of Buenos Aires City, that marriage equality (which was about to be approved) was the “work of the devil.”
Many victims are sent to the Hogar where the priest beats Mephisto every Friday (closed for holidays in December and January) by other Catholic priests who dare not face the issue.
Mancuso affirms that his task is “above political squabbles” and he helps those who have been infected, regardless of their ideology. Among them is a former governor of Buenos Aires, whose name he refuses to utter.
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