Sandyeggo,your find about Maradriaga is very good. I have watched him for some time and had noted his opinion on the pedophile priests,which he gave in 2002 not 2000,he stated he had thought we in the U.S. were over reacting and our media was over persecuting the Church.
His name was brought to my attention when I attended a little road show in mid 2002 put on by one of our daffiest parishes. The road show starred John Allen from the National unCatholic Reporter and Robert Blair Kaiser,once the religious editor of Time magazine. The road show was timed perfectly to coincide with the mounting problems of Cardinal Law. It seemed like a team effort of VOTF,Call to Action,Future Church and all of the dissentering groups. The subject was "We Can Shape the Church of Tomorrow",or something of that nature. At the time I was convinced that they thought the story would have resulted in massive changes by then and they were surprised that 6 months into it Catholics weren't begging for an overthrow of the Pope,Rome and Law.
I can only say that at the time I was stricken with the distinct impression that information about abuse had been held back in order to get a huge amount of abuse cases to appear to be "discovered" as if all happened in the past few years and that no one knew about it.Since I had figured it out by 1985,i was surprised that they hadn't.
To make a long story shorter,John Allen mentioned Maradiaga as papbile and added that he had the "smile of an Aztec god",weird,I was taken aback,but it certainly imprinted Maradiago's name in my memory bank.
Since then I have seen him touted twice in the Reporter as papabile. I was sure after his statement about the press making much out of little,the Reporter would have dropped him like a hot potato. Since they seem so intent on trying to make the scandal a reason for pulling away from the Pope and the curia because of their callousness,and then their hand picked favorite says something more cavalier than the old men at the Vatican. But they just took no notice at all and walked on bye,tra-la-la,doncha know? So I figure that along with Daneels,who I also never heard mentioned as a condidate until they did,they must have quite a bit riding on a very small number of candidates that meet their approval.
Polycarp,do you see why I wonder if the omission of his last name was you or the DMN? If you mistyped it I know it was a mistake. If the Dallas paper omitted it,it is a widern spread media attempt to protect a favorite candidate for Pope. Oscar Rodriguez would fade into a nonentity,Oscar Andreas Rodriguiz Maradiago,an identified pedophile protector,could no longer be a leading candidate for Pope.
I hope you both can understand what I am trying to convey,I don't have time to edit and polish.
Oscar Andreas Rodriguiz Maradiago,an identified pedophile protector,could no longer be a leading candidate for Pope.
More on him--->
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:ci2-DyWH8lcJ:www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0711.htm+%22Oscar+Rodriguez+Maradiaga%22++jews&hl=en
I just copied and pasted the article directly from DMN, so if there is any problem it was on their part, not mine. Interesting, good sleuthing, saradippity!
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Polycarp,do you see why I wonder if the omission of his last name was you or the DMN? If you mistyped it I know it was a mistake. If the Dallas paper omitted it,it is a widern spread media attempt to protect a favorite candidate for Pope. Oscar Rodriguez would fade into a nonentity,Oscar Andreas Rodriguiz Maradiago,an identified pedophile protector,could no longer be a leading candidate for Pope.I hate to break it to you, but there is no conspiracy.
In other languages and cultures, the father's surname is place in a different order than in the American customary fashion.
Therefore, what you call a "last name" is actually the mother's maiden name. Addressing a man solely by his mother's maiden name is not correct.
Mr. Rodriguez is correct. Mr. Rodriguez Mariadago is also acceptable, although less common. Mr. Mariadago is NOT correct.
Salesian Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez of Honduras is absolutely correct when writing in English.