"Once again terrorism has left its mark on the Spanish society with the murder of Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, an entrepreneur killed today by ETA in Azpeitìa in the Basque country. The statement by the Archbishopric of Madrid highlights that this "was a cruel crime which put an end to the life of a human being, made in the image of the Creator, whose assassination constitutes a grave sin." Cardinal of Madrid and his auxiliaries condemn this "action against life and freedom recalling, at the same time, that terrorism is a radical ‘denial’ of God’s law and, above all, of the fundamental right to "human dignity." For the prelates, "terrorism reveals a deep moral crisis." Therefore they call on the faithful "to pray for the end of violence" and ask for "a change in human hearth" and "a true conversion of the terrorists." And also "that the authorities may use the means of the state of right to achieve true justice and peace and to promote a growing and absolute respect for the dignity of the human person at all levels of society, so that evil can be overcome by good." Finally an invocation to Mary that she "may touch the hearts and the conscience of terrorists, in the grip of hatred and of the denial of God and man, and convert them". ” ” ” “
