Thread: Mexican president says he will thank Virgin of Guadalupe

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Mexican president says he will thank Virgin of Guadalupe for allowing him to govern


ASSOCIATED PRESS

12:02 p.m. September 25, 2006

MEXICO CITY – President Vicente Fox, a staunch Roman Catholic, said Monday he would go to Mexico City's basilica to thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for allowing him to govern the country for six years.
Fox, who has sparked widespread criticism in the past for using religious symbols and publicly advocating his faith, said he would go to the Basilica of Guadalupe on Nov. 30 at 10 p.m. “to thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for giving me the opportunity to serve a country so marvelous, so full of values.”

Fox, who made his comments during a visit to his home state of Guanajuato, went to the basilica on Dec. 1, 2000, the day he took office, to ask for the virgin's help in his upcoming term.

Fox also was criticized for kissing the ring of the late Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to Mexico in 2002.

Mexico has harsh laws separating church and state. The Roman Catholic Church held a government-enforced monopoly of faith for three centuries but church power was curbed by a series of liberal reform laws in the mid-1800s. Clerics challenged the government in an armed revolt in the 1920s, after which the authorities passed harsh anti-clerical laws and repressed religion.

Mexico re-established relations with the Vatican only in 1992.

“to thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for giving me the opportunity to serve a country so marvelous, so full of values.”

So full of values that while the people in Mexico live in poverty, the president of Mexico's wife is famous for the hundreds or thousands of pairs of shoes in her closet.

A country with a president who shows his people how to break the laws of another country and to live in that country illegally, against the will of the people which is not only wrong and disrespectful to those people , but harmful and dangerous to them as well.

I'm really looking forward to putting him behind us. The next one will probably be just as fond of "values".

I don't get the impression that he is a staunch Roman Catholic!

If he was, he would of been concerned about helping his poor people in Mexico. He would'nt have promoted the idea for his poor people to go north to break US law and break every law in our country to make money, not pay taxes and basically rob the US!

Oh no Mr. Fox, you are definately a fox in sheep's clothing. You are a Catholic in name only period!!

Fox, who has sparked widespread criticism in the past for using religious symbols and publicly advocating his faith, said he would go to the Basilica of Guadalupe on Nov. 30 at 10 p.m. “to thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for giving me the opportunity to serve a country so marvelous, so full of values.”

This sounds familiar. I guess Vincente and his brother Jorge work out of the same NAU playbook.