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    AmP Countdown: Time left to demand that Congress make health care reform pro-life: 2009-11-07 18:00:00 GMT-05:00


    Wednesday, August 20, 2008

    Will ex-bishop Lugo be allowed to resume his ministry in the future?

    This author thinks so but that's not what I've heard:

    Having scored a popularity rating as high as 97 percent, Lugo had received a "special dispensation from Pope Benedict XVI to leave the church to become president, with the option of returning to the clergy" after holding public office in the secular world. Lugo's sister, Mercedes, will assume the traditional, ceremonial role of a presidential spouse to assist her unmarried brother in his new, political job. She told an Argentine newspaper: "I'm virtually convinced that, when Fernando Lugo finishes his term, he will return to religious life." Lugo himself "has renounced his $40,000 presidential salary and urged other politicians to do the same as a symbol of his vows for economic austerity and transparency." At his swearing-in ceremony, he told an audience of some 15,000 onlookers: "I have no need of this money, which belongs to more humble people...." He also said he "would be 'implacable with the robbers of the people' in his chronically corrupt nation." (Agence France Presse)

    Previous stories about the Lugo saga archived here.

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