Clothes make the man?
Can you guess what this guy does for a living?
The photo is full of clues, but you’ll have to read on for the answer…
The candles, the heavy book, the styled artwork and uncomfortable furniture. This photo (from Desde la Fe) shows Monsignor Armando Colín Cruz, the new Auxilliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, named to his post this week by Pope Benedict XIV. There’s nothing particularly earth-shattering in all this. Guadalajara is a bulkward of conservative Catholicism, so the Monsignor’s civvies aren’t indicative of a “liberal” attitude.
Mons. Colín is probably a bit better dressed than most Mexican padres, but I just like to remind people once in a while that the REAL Mexico is not anything like the Hollywood stereotypes. The Mexican Constitution’s very strict separation of Church and State — despite recent attempts by the right to soften it — still stands. While wearing clerical garb off Church grounds (which was Constitutionally forbidden for many years) is not illegal, priests and nuns are … shall we say… out of the habit?
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