Showing posts with label Our Lady of Guadalupe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Lady of Guadalupe. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Maybe there are some stupid questions after all.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. She viewed the image of Our Lady on the tilma of Juan Diego on display in the Basilica. She asked Msgr. Diego Monrroy who painted the image. He apparently responded, "God."

Oops. We can't expect everyone to keep up with all the traditions of other faiths, even the various parts of the Christian church. Hilary was raised in the Methodist Church in Illinois and Our Lady of Guadalupe is important within the Catholic Church in Mexico and among Hispanics in the USA.

Unfortunately, this is yet another blooper from the best and brightest who would show what a bunch of idiots the Bush administration was. Far more serious, the Secretary of State is in Mexico for discussions of Congress' violation of NAFTA in denying Mexican trucks' access to the USA. That is a far more serious blooper than not knowing the tradition of the miraculous origin of Mary's image on Juan Diego's tilma in 1531.