Caritas and the Social Pastoral warn that the official law "threatens the sovereignty of our land."  It was through a strongly worded letter sent to Congress that the main committees of the Catholic Church rejected the "Inviolability of Private Property" bill.

In this way, the resistance to the deregulation and privatization of Argentine land gained a powerful institutional voice. According to an investigation by journalist Sebastián Premici for El Destape , the Church's Social Pastoral Office, along with Caritas and the Episcopal Commission for Indigenous Pastoral Care, sent a formal letter to national legislators expressing their "deep concern" and total rejection of the law promoted by the Executive Branch.

For the ecclesiastical organizations, the initiative drafted by the Ministry of Deregulation and legal studies of the City of Buenos Aires "threatens the sovereignty of our land, our food, our common goods and the right of peoples to self-determination."

Land is not a commodity: A brake on market logic

The episcopal document, entitled “The Earth: Mother, Sister, and Common Good,” revisits the concepts of Pope Leo XIV ’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas to contrast the social function of property with the government’s attempt at absolute commodification. The Church reminded the senators that natural resources such as soil, water, and air “have been given by God to the entire human family” and that justice demands prioritizing the collective interest over individual accumulation.

The Church pointed directly at the most dangerous axes:

Corporate complicity and the weakness of the State

The Church's letter comes in a context of extreme opacity, where law firms such as Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen —denounced by the anti-corruption prosecutor's office for setting up the network of front men for the fraudulent sale of 60,000 hectares to the Chilean magnate Ibáñez Bulnes in Santa Cruz— appear as the true drafters behind the scenes of the regulations.

In conclusion, the pastoral groups warned that the "Freedom Advances" law "weakens the power of the State, at its various levels, to manage land use and protect community interests." By enshrining the defenselessness of the national State and transferring to governors the discretion to negotiate exceptions in border areas, the law fragments territorial integrity and leaves local communities and the most vulnerable sectors at the mercy of transnational private interests.

An ethical limit to dispossession

The ecumenical pronouncement demonstrates that the danger of the "private property" project transcends the boundaries of political parties. When Caritas and the Indigenous Pastoral Ministry speak of food and territorial sovereignty, they are validating the alarm raised by the findings of the Office of Administrative Investigations (PIA) regarding foreign enclaves in Patagonia: the possession of land by foreign powers or corporations is, in itself, an irreversible harm to the nation.

The Senate has already had to postpone the debate once due to a lack of votes; the Church's word now places an insurmountable ethical limit for those legislators who intend to raise their hands to auction off the common heritage of Argentinians.