[Marxism] Brazil Cardinal Slams Lula's Views On Abortion, Gay Rights

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(For the Lula-bashers on Marxmail. But the way, as this is
being written, Fidel Castro has been speaking about the
Pope, religion and their relations with the Revolution, and
defending Marxism-Leninism against critics for the past hour
and a half.)
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Brazil Cardinal Slams Lula's Views On Abortion, Gay Rights
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
April 6, 2005 4:20 p.m.

BRASILIA (AP)--A Brazilian cardinal criticized President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for defending abortion and gay
rights, calling Silva "chaotic, not Catholic," in an
interview published Wednesday.

"A Catholic cannot be in favor of abortion," Rio de Janeiro
Cardinal Eusebio Scheid told the Estado de S. Paulo
newspaper in Rome, where he arrived Tuesday for the
conclave to chose a new pope.

Scheid, 72, said he was perplexed by the defense of gay
rights by Lula and his leftist Workers Party.

"His relations with gays - who approved all that? He left
us all rather confused," Scheid was quoted as saying.

Lula will attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II, amid
speculation that Sao Paulo cardinal Claudio Hummes could be
chosen the next pope. Lula has said he is hoping a
Brazilian will be named.

Scheid praised Lula for attending the funeral, but added:
"He expects political dividends from this."

Considered a conservative, Scheid said Lula - a
grade-school dropout from Brazil's poor Northeast - had an
"illogical" and "uncultivated" Catholic faith.

"He was born in the working class, with all its confusions.
He never had a proper formation and deepening of his
faith," Scheid told Estado. "He and the Holy Spirit don't
understand each other."

Scheid, who has good relations with Lula, said politicians
in general were untrustworthy.

"They say one thing now and something else tomorrow," he
was quoted as saying. "The left never brought benefits to
anyone. Look at Russia, China and Cuba ."

Lula's office said he had made no comment on Scheid's
remarks.




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