Via Ben Smith, the Catholic News Agency reported Friday on a cringe-inducing gaffe Hillary Clinton committed in Mexico:
A friend points out that this makes Clinton’s decision to wear a Catholic devotional bracelet during Pennsylvania primary all the more shameless. Update: Many folks tell me that they, too, didn’t know Catholic belief about the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and think it’s a bit much to call Clinton’s gaffe cringe-inducing. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe may not be common knowledge among non-Catholics, but you’d think the Secretary of State would receive at least a Wikipedia-level briefing about important religious, cultural, and historic sites she sees, so as to avoid offending the local population. I also didn’t know what the Russian word for “reset” was, but when the State Department incorrectly translated it, that was pretty embarrassing.
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