HUGO’S EGO - Chávez Steps Up His Attacks on Venezuela’s Catholics

Alejandro Bermudez writes about the overblown ego of Pro Ecclesia's favorite Castro-Loving Commie Bastard™ in the September 2-8, 2007 issue of the National Catholic Register:

CARACAS, Venezuela — Headlines began questioning the ego of the president of Venezuela after a rambling Aug. 16 speech in which, according to Reuters, he “anointed himself president for life.”

Andrés Oppenheimer, the noted Latin American analyst of The Miami Herald, once said that Hugo Chávez’s ego grows proportionally to the price of oil.

Time seems to be substantiating not only Oppenheimer’s law, but also the corollary postulated by Venezuelan Bishop Baltazar Porras: Chávez’s Catholicism diminishes as his ego expands.

In fact, not only has the Catholic Church become the primary target of the Venezuelan leader’s frequent diatribes against his perceived opponents, he now is renouncing his Catholic identity.

In 1998, Chávez described himself as a “practicing Catholic,” who refrained from taking Communion only because he was divorced and remarried illicitly.

But this June, he described himself quite differently. “I believe in Christ and his social doctrine and just like Fidel [Castro], I believe that a socialist project can be built out of Christian principles,” he said.

“I do not pray; I just make the Sign of the Cross, but I don’t believe in the Catholic Church, especially in some of its most absurd dogmas, such as the Resurrection, heaven or hell,” he added during one of his weekly radio and television shows, “Aló Presidente.”

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