An angry Rui Moreira complains to the Vatican and no longer gives a penny to the church of Porto

Porto Diocese is “Private Real Estate Agent”, mayor feels insulted by Bishop Manuel Linda.

The meeting of the Executive of the Porto City Council even started with a vote of regret for.

But at the meeting on Tuesday, the tone clearly changed when, soon after, the subject became the Real Estate Alienation in the neighborhood of Eirinhas and in Miragaia by Diocese do porto.

In the eirinhas there are houses that are from the diocese, were the target of a exchange, the new owner is a construction company – and the residents fear running out of homeexplains the.

In Miragaia, in the historic zone, three buildings were performed by three T1 in Boavista.

A Church admitted to the mayor of Porto who made exchanges to to throw the possibility of the Chamber – or the residents – exercising the preference right (in the case of Miragaia). It was Rui Moreira himself who revealed this part.

There is no more money

The Mayor of Porto, in response to the CDU protest vote on this subject, recalled (from 30m30s in the video above) that the relationship between the Catholic Church and the port “always has been complex”, even before Portugal was Portugal.

And now the differences are evident: for Rui Moreira, the Porto Diocese is being a “private real estate agent” and is preventing residents from continuing in their homes.

At issue, he recalled, are houses offered to the Catholic Church to guarantee the historical rights of those residents.

With this scheme of exchanges to prevent the right of preference of the House, Rui Moreira attacked: “We are very concerned that this matter is analyzed by the Catholic Church in a way economicist as if it were any real estate agent – on top of that tricks ”.

The president of the municipality, who was clearly irritated, He says he was insulted by the Bishop of Porto, Manuel Linda, when he responded to his letter about a request: “In the future, whenever they want to alienate this nature, it would not hurt the House” – but a “arrived”insulting answerit’s a non -answer. ”

Ahead, he revealed: “What they told us was that there are nothing to remember us”.

E There is no more money for the Catholic Church: “I know I’m leaving but, for my part, until I leave, there will be no deliberation, that I will bring here or vote favorably, in the sense of contributing to Any penny that is For the Catholic Church – insofar as they failed to behave like what they are, to treat themselves as a private real estate agent. ”

But then, the Mayor of Porto continued, “When you have to get the Church of São João da Foz or the Mother Church of Campanhã, Parish priests come here knock on the door because the church has no money And then it’s already the city’s patrimonial interest. ”

Rui Moreira announced that it will Write a letter to the apostolic nuncio – Representative of the Vatican and responsible for the appointment of the bishop – “giving grade of our concern and that the church is not behaving as tradition in the city of Porto, with all the consequences it has.”