Venezuelan bishops object as politician invokes Chavez in the Lord's Prayer
September 05, 2014
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Church leaders in Venezuela have rebuked a politician who, as a Socialist Party convention, transformed the Lord’s Prayer into an invocation of the spirit of the country’s deceased strongman, Hugo Chavez.
“Our Chavez who art in heaven,” began Maria Estella Uribe, going on to pray for an end to capitalism and oligarchy.
A quick response from the Church said that the words of the Lord’s Prayer should be recognized as “untouchable” because they come directly from Jesus. “He who recites this new and wrongful version of the Lord’s Prayer is committing the sin of idolatry,” the statement continued.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a disciple of Chavez, complained that the Church hierarchy was still pursuing a long conflict with the late rule. “They couldn’t get rid of Chávez while he was alive so now they want to persecute the people’s spiritual love for him,” he said.
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Posted by: garedawg -
Sep. 11, 2014 2:20 PM ET USA
Someday he will find out whether Hugo Chavez will pray for him "now and in the hour of his death".
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Posted by: -
Sep. 06, 2014 2:49 AM ET USA
If any one of your readers has the stamina to open the link to the original Guardian, and then scroll down to the typical comments from the bloggers about the Catholic Church, they will at least begin to understand what British Catholics have to contend with!
