Word: lugo
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...financial and political interests come before justice and decency. Al-Megrahi's release from prison after only eight years is shameful, and even more so since it was officially based on "compassionate grounds." Where is the compassion for the 270 people who died, and their loved ones? Stefania Lionetti, LUGO, ITALY...
...decency. Al-Megrahi's release from prison after only eight years is shameful, and even more so since it was officially based on "compassionate grounds." Where is the compassion for the 270 people who died, and their loved ones? My heart goes out to the victims' families. Stefania Lionetti, Lugo, Italy...
Stone extends his rigorous dichotomy to the film's structure. The first half focuses on Chávez, the second on other South American heads of state who tilt to the port side: Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the grand old man of social revolution, Raúl Castro. (Stone profiled Raúl's brother in a similarly indulgent 2003 poli-doc, Commandante.) The only missing socialist leader is Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua...
...practical reason too: celibacy meant no offspring vying to inherit church property. That's not to say the rules were always followed, however. Many priests' spirits proved weak and their flesh willing--notably the sybaritic Pope Alexander VI, who installed his teenage son as an Archbishop in 1493. Fernando Lugo, the current President of Paraguay and a former bishop, is accused of fathering three children as a man of the cloth. And while abstinence does not inevitably lead to child molestation, critics are quick to draw a link between priestly celibacy and recent pedophilia scandals...
Nonetheless, the Cutié scandal is sure to ratchet up debate over clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church, a spiritual ideal that seems to collide more often today with biological reality. (See the recent paternity-suit travails of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who has admitted to fathering a child and is alleged to have sired others while he was still a priest.) A bigger problem for the church, however, may be Cutié's Oprah-like standing in the Latino community - the only demographic where U.S. Catholicism is experiencing growth. America's Catholic bishops, many of whom are widely accused...