Hillary Clinton: Who painted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe?

From Catholic News Agency (ht: Hot Air):

During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the American people,” after asking who painted the famous image.

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.

Mrs. Clinton was received on Thursday at 8:15 a.m. by the rector of the Basilica, Msgr. Diego Monroy.

Msgr. Monroy took Mrs. Clinton to the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which had been previously lowered from its usual altar for the occasion.

After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded “God!”

Mrs. Clinton was "honored" yesterday by Planned Barrenhood, which bestowed the "Margaret Sanger Award" on the Secretary of State. The award recognizes Clinton's dedication to snuffing out the life of the innocent  women's reproductive rights. The Houston Chronicle reports:

“A society that denies and demeans women’s rights and roles is a society that is more likely to engage in behavior that is negative, anti-democratic and leads to violence and extremism,” Clinton said at Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s national conference in Houston. Clinton spoke to the organization after being honored for her work on behalf of women’s health and reproductive rights. She was endorsed by Planned Parenthood during her unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She told the conference women’s reproductive and health rights will be key issues in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

Nothing, of course, about Sanger's passionate support of eugenics and her desire to "exterminate the Negro population." (What, no interest in having a dialogue about that?) Considering how little she seems to know about European history and Our Lady of Guadalupe, and how little her husband knows about basic biology, I almost wonder: do either Bill or Hillary really know what takes place during an abortion? Sigh.

The Anchoress and the Gateway Pundit comment.

Comments

[walter]

I am truly ashamed that I was ever a Democrat. Thanks to God that I am no longer complicit in this party's evil.

[Evan]

I was astonished to find out that they actually gave an award with that woman's name on it. What a wretched honor... you'd think they'd try to hide the eugenicist legacy rather than hand out awards that broadcast it.

On the the question concerning Our Lady of Guadalupe, I think Ms. Clinton gets a pass... she's guilty of some illiteracy, but no disrespect I don't think. I would have loved to see the look on everyone's face when she asked the question!

[Dominic.+++]

Personally,I think that her remark about The Image of Oyur Lady was a calculated insult.
She[Hillary] knows damn well that the Image was miraculously created.
She's jabbing at the Faith of all Catholics.

God help us.

Dominic.
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[M. L. Hearing]

"calculated insult" . . . maybe. Clinton and her kind have no room for the supernatural in their world--because that would take a huge chunk of control away from them. And, make no mistake, they want to control evrything.

M. L. Hearing

[Reina]

"Who painted it?"
That's a joke, isn't it? I thought it was the winning entry in the caption call Patrick Madrid is running on his blog.

[Evan]

Oh, give me a break. There's no reason not to give her the benefit of the doubt. And while she's no Catholic, she's certainly a religious person and a Christian. There's plenty to disagree with her about, but she's far from guilty of having "no room for the supernatural" in her world. That's just silly. There are plenty of secularist or atheist liberals out there, but being a liberal doesn't make you an opponent of religion.

[Lorraine Shelstad]

I think it was an comment made in ingnorance not a calculated insult. After all she also thought (on her visit to Europe) that the USA is the world's oldest democracy!