Time sees Obama move to split off Hispanic Catholics

June 01, 2009

By nominating a Hispanic theologian, Miguel Diaz, to become the US ambassador to the Holy See. President Obama is posing a serious challenge to the Catholic Church, according to a Time magazine analysis. The President is trying to woo Hispanic Catholics, the magazine suggests, and thereby pull them away from the influence of the Catholic hierarchy while solidifying the strength of the Democratic party among Hispanic voters. In a crass example of politicization of religion, Time claims: "The American Catholic church may be the one institution more worried than the GOP about losing Hispanics." (Notice the assumption that a Hispanic Catholic drawn into the orbit of Democratic party politics is lost to the Church.)

 

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Further information:

• Obama's Vatican Pick: Boosting Hispanic Catholics (Time)