There is the reported thing with the leaders’ original pact with satan to free them from the French . . .
There’s also the fact that even though so many claim to be RC’s at least 50% of them also believe and practice voodoo.
Such things have terrible consequences.
Denying it and pretending otherwise is not good reality testing.
quoting:
“Haitians are 80 per cent Catholic and – so they say – 100 per cent Vodouist. Vodou (from the Dahomean vodu, “spirit” or “deity”) is a peaceable New World religion that marries elements of Catholicism with the rites and rituals of ancestral Africa... When a Haitian is possessed by a loa (spirit) he is taken out of himself and transformed. At night, Port-au-Prince is now said to flicker with candles, as swaying, homeless Haitians offer prayers to the loas in hope of deliverance...”
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Haiti is only nominally catholic. A country based upon demon possession has no chance. I have no doubt that there are many devout Christians there but a large part of the country has been caught up in voudou for two hundred years, including its ruling class, at least until the fall of the Duvalier family. Aristide sounded like he was cut from the same cloth.
Its history from its founding until relatively recently is a horrorshow. Someone who has been there lately could tell us if it is still the same; but its worth noting that we have UN troops there keeping the place from tearing itself apart... and thats prior to the earthquake.