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To: livius; Steelfish
He’s from Florida and while he looks like the queen of the month, I think he’s married.

Actually, he is Cuban and yes, he is married with 4 children. Let's cut him some slack; the Vatican did.

23 posted on 08/27/2009 4:06:50 PM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

Actually, I think he’s a particularly dangerous appointment. One of the reasons he was chosen is because he’s on some sort of “Hispanic Catholic” group that worked for Obama during the election.

Unfortunately, Hispanic Catholics receive really lousy catechesis, which in many cases is nothing but a sort of bilingual 1970’s “social justice” rehash where they learn nothing of God, the Faith, or ethics and the Christian life, and a lot about how a “just society” means that the government gives you things.

Abortion has made huge inroads among Hispanic Catholics because they have been targeted by groups like Planned Parenthood...mainly because they have so little formation in their Catholicism and are very eager to adopt what they perceive to be American behavior. Planned Parenthood also, oddly, pushes homosexuality in Hispanic neighborhoods by runnig condomn campaigns that depict traditional dislike of homosexuality as backwards, machista, and Old World.

So I actually think this guy is worse than some of the others. I think he will give the Vatican a distorted view of Hispanic Catholics, and at the same time, I think he will give Hispanic Catholics the idea that his heterodox moral views are acceptable to the Vatican.


24 posted on 08/27/2009 7:30:17 PM PDT by livius
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