Priest & President of the U.N.?
Rev. Miguel d’Escoto-Brockmann, born in Los Angeles on February 5, 1933, is a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician, liberation theologian and Maryknoll Catholic priest.
He was just elected President of the United Nations General Assembly; his one year term at that post will begin in September 2008. He will preside over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Quotes from Brockmann:
"They elected a priest. And I hope no one is offended if I say that love is what is most needed in this world. And that selfishness is what has gotten us into the terrible quagmire in which the world is sinking, almost irreversibly, unless something big happens. This may sound like a sermon. Well, OK."
Ronald Reagan is “the butcher of my (Nicaraguan) people"
"Because of Reagan and his spiritual heir George W. Bush, the world today is far less safe and secure than it has ever been."
Perhaps Obama has found his new pastor?
O tempora, O mores!
I saw this same article over on "Whispers..." this morning.
The article emphasizes this guy's status as "priest". And yet, he isn't dressed as a priest, and certainly doesn't seem to be functioning or living as a priest.
What is this man's current status in the Church? Is he still a practicing priest with faculties, carrying out priestly functions? If so, how does that square with his (apparently lifelong) public involvement in Latin American politics? Or is he a "former" priest? If so, did he merely withdraw himself from priestly life, or has he been formally laicized, in which case it is inaccurate and somewhat dishonest to describe him as a "priest"?
Publicizing such articles without clarifying the career history and current clerical status of such "priests" or other clerics or former clerics can only confuse and possibly scandalize the faithful.
Posted by: Bruce | Thursday, June 05, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Yes I'd like to know more about this guy beyond that he secretly joined the Sandinistas, is also into Liberation Theology and likes to bash Reagan and Bush.
Is this Pfleger Mark II?
Posted by: Shin | Friday, June 06, 2008 at 01:03 AM
I didn't know the former Sandinista Foreign Minister was still alive!
Posted by: Maximus | Friday, June 06, 2008 at 02:34 AM
Yes! Padre, et al would organize and arm the masses, and take from the filthy, selfish dogs. That's straight out of the Gospel of Marx, Chapter 13, Verse 13.
Posted by: T. Shaw | Friday, June 06, 2008 at 11:14 AM
He's probably not wearing his priest garb so he can avoid a positive ID by his alter boys.
www.newarkarchbishop.com
Posted by: Brian Fisher | Friday, June 06, 2008 at 02:27 PM
So is this one that will come out of the land or the sea? ;-
Posted by: M. R. | Saturday, June 07, 2008 at 02:09 PM
He's right. In his time Ronald Reagan made the world less safe...for communist totalitarians.
G.W. Bush is trying to make the world less safe for radical Islamist terrorists. Time will tell if he has been successful.
Posted by: LJ | Sunday, June 08, 2008 at 01:08 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8476042566108039966&q=iran+contra&ei=rMlQSIeTBqCm4QLd_umtDA&hl=en
Posted by: jon | Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 03:02 AM
Maybe some folks need a history lesson here... Go to the link above, 'round the 29-35:00 minute mark. Watch ex-CIA covert specialist John Stockwell, fmr. US Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White, and ex-CONTRA leader Edgar Chamorro (among other non-commies) vindicate this priest's (?) testimony. I lived in Tegucigalpa from '82-88. I traveled the region. I saw what I saw. Unless any of you can say the same, I'd suggest you stop parroting the party line on Reagan and better educate yourselves.
Posted by: jon | Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 03:25 AM