Tim Kaine’s Time With a Marxist Priest

[DonViejo]

Tim Kaine frequently talks about how his mission in Honduras in the early 1980s shaped his worldview. That trip included visits with a controversial priest who later disappeared.

BETSY WOODRUFF

10.03.16 1:03 AM ET

In 1983—according to some accounts—a Honduran death squad backed by the Reagan administration tossed a Catholic priest out of a helicopter and to his death. The priest had once described himself as a “good Marxist,” and he had been the chaplain for a column of Cuban-trained communist guerillas trying overturn the country’s government.

Just three years before falling to his death, that priest met with Tim Kaine.

Today, that meeting may cause trouble for the Virginia senator. A conservative Catholic group is taking aim at Hillary Clinton’s running mate over the one part of his biography that generally appeals most to people of faith: his mission work in Honduras.

Kaine spent nine months working there with Jesuits from 1980 to 1981, and he frequently mentions his time there on the campaign trail. And he made it a focus of his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/03/tim-kaine-s-time-with-a-marxist-priest.html

[exboyfil]

1. Relive a golden oldie from the 1980s

I kind of hope Pence is dumb enough to bring this up. Honduran death squads - Good. A priest trying to feed the poor - Bad.

Kind of summarizes the modern Republican party.

[underpants]

2. Taking on Tim's mission work is a huge mistake

Add in that it was a Reagan supported death squad that killed a priest.

[gopiscrap]

3. no you're wrong:

it was a REPUBLICAN supported death squad that killed the priest!

[Wounded Bear]

4. You're both right...

[white_wolf]

5. the more I learn about Reagan...

The more I want to personally slap everyone who voted against Carter. I'll never quite understand the crap that man gets especially the idea that he's somehow "too good a person" to be president.

[Fast Walker 52]

6. So the fuck what???

[nolabear]

7. That's what a Kellyanne was tweeting about today. It's going to fail them badly.

These straws they're grasping at are not going to do them one bit of good.

[BlueInPhilly]

8. Liberation theology

... was a movement in Christian theology, developed mainly by Latin American Roman Catholics, that emphasizes liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation

Latin American liberation theology met opposition in the United States,[2] which accused it of using "Marxist concepts", and led to admonishment by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 1984 and 1986.

So there...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. I'm failing to see what this "scandal" is supposed to be about

The fact that this priest he met with was Marxist or the fact that he died three years after meeting with Kaine? His missionary work?