Maximum Holy Father:
We urge you to denounce bullfighting as a merciless and unchristian spectacle, as Pope Pius V did prior to you. God’s creations must no longer be subjected to extended struggling and stabbed to dying within the identify of Catholic saints or throughout holy Christian celebrations, and participants of the Catholic clergy shouldn’t enhance the torture of animals within the identify of faith.
As declared within the 2015 Laudato si’, “Each and every act of cruelty in opposition to any creature is ‘opposite to human dignity.’” But the Catholic Church’s silence and failure to behave in regards to bull torture makes a mockery of Christ’s teachings of compassion.
Bullfighting is a ritualized execution that comes to many times goading and stabbing a bull till he’s weakened and defenseless. A matador then plunges a sword into the animal’s middle or lungs. It may take many makes an attempt to kill a bull this manner, and if the matador fails, a knife is used to sever the spinal wire. The bull’s ears or tail can even be bring to a halt and saved as a trophy.
Holy Father, prior to extra animals are tortured on this approach, please keep up a correspondence to participants of the clergy and the greater than 1 billion Catholics all over the world that bullfighting is opposite to the values of the Roman Catholic religion and that any affiliation with this grotesquely merciless spectacle in God’s identify will have to stop right away.
Sincerely,