Pujol and the final judgment

As the date of the trial against Jordi Pujol and his children approaches, the former president of the Generalitat is breaking his silence, spurred on at 92 years of age by the idea that has haunted him since his confession: how he will pass into posterity.

Eight years have passed since that July 25, 2014 in which he explained that his family had kept a millionaire inheritance hidden from the Treasury for 30 years outside of Spain.

Now, fearful of the treatment that human justice will give him, Pujol tries to cling to religious transcendence to save his figure and make sense of the inexplicable: especially his failure to act to stop the alleged criminal activity of some of his children, those who would be left out. of his statement "I would put my hand in the fire for a large part of my family".

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Jordi Pujol: "I would put my hand in the fire for a large part of my family"

This is how he expressed himself recently in an interview on the program "

" , from SER Catalunya.

Pujol explained that the theological virtue of hope helps him in his judicial situation, which will take him and his seven children to the bench as alleged members of a plot charged with illicit association, money laundering and crimes against public finances. .

"In difficult times you have to have strength, one of the [cardinal] virtues that the catechism explained to us."

However, immediately afterwards he added: “Another virtue has not failed me that is more important, which is theological, which is hope.”

With these words, Pujol wanted to underline the superiority of the theological virtues —faith, hope and charity— over the cardinal ones: prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.

The latter are human virtues, the fruit and seed of morally good acts, according to Catholic orthodoxy.

However, the theological ones try to adapt the faculties of man to the participation of the divine nature.

Their origin, motive and object are God One and Trino, according to the catechism to which the

appealed .

Pujol bets more on transcendence than on contingency.

It is better to come to terms with God than with men.

That would explain why the appreciated theological virtue appears on the frontispiece of the book that the

is finalizing:

Pujol is firmly committed to this theological virtue because he has entrusted himself to the Almighty to paradoxically save his worldly image in posterity.

It is not new, the Church has an extensive manual on the use of spirituality to avoid suspicious actions in the material.

Perhaps what most evidenced this drift by the

was when, when asked by the journalist Josep Cuní if he feared more the trial or death, Pujol responded spontaneously: "To the final trial?"

Sometimes you have to resort to the transcendent so as not to give explanations of what is evident.

Searching for the alibi of spirituality is a way to avoid talking about situations in which corruption has paraded in the light of day before your eyes.

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