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Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Catholic Church’s Episcopal Conference says despite  the technological advances, growth of the democratic conscience and the need to preserve the planet, evils which seem ancestral such as corruption, political clientelism and populism persist in the country.

In their Pastoral Letter to mark the Day of Our Lady of La Altagracia, the bishops also say injustices persist, which far from diminishing, seem to grow and take new faces in the form of drug trafficking and consumption, violence and crime. They add that despite the signs of an economic bonanza and growth, also evident is the spread of poverty and marginality, deficiency and deteriorate basic services, the lack of clear public policies, "as evidenced after the passage of the storms Noel and Olga, which filled the country with mourning and destruction."

They say they are concerned with the phenomenon of globalización which, in their view, brings with it values and counter values which give rise to a new society and culture, as well as to great and accelerated changes, and challenges.

They catholic bishops deplore, in addition, the accelerated cross-culturization process which entails a loss of values that destroy us as a nation. "the new speech  modernity brings with it new perversities for institutions like marriage and the family, particularly the promotion of an antilife culture."

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Written by: josean, 16 Jan 2008 8:45 AM
From: United States
I hate to be a nag, but does anyone have any solid information regarding how much money the cardinal has given to the victims of Noel and Olga from his vast personal wealth. In fact how generous has he been with the hefty resources of the church.

You see the "good" cardinal talks a good game, as does his underlings, but its all for show (bulto)!
Written by: Belial, 16 Jan 2008 11:32 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Evils which seem ancestral such as corruption, political clientelism and populism persist in the country," the Catholic experts on divinity declare sorrowfully.

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"Populism" ... which the experts on divinity deplore ... is "the belief in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people."
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Elitism ... something to which these privileged experts proudly belong ... in any political movement aimed chiefly at promoting the interests of privilege and wealth.

"Seem ancestral." In other words, the DR people suffer from an innate weakness; they can neither clean up their pigsty of bourgeois democracy nor overthrow this fake democracy for a proletarian democracy.

Every time the DR people "populistically" do such this (1965), Catholic experts on divine beings stabbed the people in the back and summoned US imperialists troops to attack and occupy the DR people.

The experts' pedophilia and hypocrisy seem ancestral.
Written by: lucwarmie, 16 Jan 2008 1:18 PM
From: Canada

Christianity and it's values had helped maintain the U.S. and Canada wealth after the use of basically free or next to free labour of the african slaves and native people and the other nationalities had help build and give the opportunity to these nations to become developed. Now we as nations move away from the church.

D.R. , uses haitians almost free labour, new capitalistic values are amoung the rich and small # middle class. This bishop is targeting the poor majority to maintain his objective of using them to turn to the church or stay with the church, inturn providing a service to the rich includes himself and the catholic church, keeping the poor anti-chaotic and telling them not be greedy. However he and his church do not practice what they preach.

If he really wishes to guide Dominicans who are suffering tell them to become self motivated and invest their time and money in education so they can prosper.
Written by: Belial, 16 Jan 2008 3:36 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Despite bonanza, poverty spreads"

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The so-called "bonanza" is a consequence of the spread of poverty.
Written by: dagtan, 16 Jan 2008 4:09 PM
From: United States
Hey guys you better leave something for me next time. There is nothing left for me to say, so I'll sign off now. lol
Written by: Belial, 16 Jan 2008 4:38 PM
From: United States, Texas
Dagtan,

Do you recall that these Catholic experts on divine beings say they drink the blood and eat the body of the Nazarene?

Well, it's not the Nazarene that they eat and drink, they devour the DR people.

And pretty soon, these experts on divinity will eat it all up and drink it all up.

Written by: davinci, 16 Jan 2008 10:04 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Why are you guys talking so aggresively about the people who create balance in the country? The Cardenal is one(if not the most)influencial Dominican alive! His powerful messages always portray the best interest for the country, as well as the saviest philosophy. I do not agree with any religion......but this guy is very Sabio...
Written by: josean, 16 Jan 2008 11:06 PM
From: United States
Balance! Balance! Balance!

Give me a break. The cardinal is always on the side of the 1% that controls 99% of the wealth, that's balance.

Sabio?

Ask him if he believes in evolution.
Written by: Belial, 17 Jan 2008 5:32 AM
From: United States, Texas
A key role of the Catholic experts on divine beings in the DR system of bourgeois rule is to educate the youth of the bourgeoisie and middle class and to lend a hand in keep the working class and the poor as uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant as possible so that the masses will be easier for the bourgeoisie, especially its reactionary sector, to rule.

For this service to the bourgeois order, the privileged classes are happy ... overjoyed ... to pay fat, lavish fees the Catholic collaborators so that the kids of privilege can listen to the nonsense and lies of the Catholic experts on divinity.
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