Bandera de la Hispanidad en las Américas,
adoptada como símbolo de las Américas
por la séptima conferencia internacional
Americana de Montevideo
el 13 de diciembre de 1933.
Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., wave to the crowd during a
campaign rally at Ernst Community Cultural Center in Annandale, Va., on July
14, 2016. (Courtesy of REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton announced Tim
Kaine, the junior Democratic senator from
Virginia and former governor of that state, as her vice presidential running
mate Friday.
Kaine, a Roman Catholic, will
appear with Clinton, a Methodist, at next week's Democratic National Convention
in Philadelphia.
Here are five faith facts about the
new vice presidential candidate.
1. He was taught by Jesuits.
Kaine was
raised Catholic in Missouri. His parents were so devout, Kaine told C-SPAN, that “if we got back
from a vacation on a Sunday night at 7:30 p.m., they would know the one church
in Kansas City that had an 8 p.m. Mass that we can make.” He attended an
all-boys Jesuit high school in Kansas City and worked for a year with Jesuit missionaries
in Honduras, where he taught welding -- his father's trade -- and carpentry.
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He
and his wife attend St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond, Va., which has a predominantly African-American
congregation. He co-founded a men's study group there.
2. Kaine says he separates the personal
from the political.
Kaine
is personally against abortion and the death penalty and has sometimes spoken
against same-sex marriage and gay adoption, all of which aligns with Catholic
teaching. But he has taken different stances in his political life. He has
upheld Roe v. Wade and told Chuck Todd of "Meet the
Press": "I have taken the position, which is quite common among
Catholics -- I have got a personal feeling about abortion, but the right rule
for government is to let women make their own decisions."
As
Virginia's governor, he oversaw 11 state executions. "I have a moral
position against the death penalty," he said in 2012. "But I took an
oath of office to uphold it. Following an oath of office is also a moral
obligation."
He
was fairly late to supporting same-sex marriage, saying in 2013, "I believe all
people, regardless of sexual orientation, should be guaranteed the full rights
to the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage under the
Constitution."
And
while Kaine opposed gay adoption in 2005 -- also in line with Catholic Church teaching -- by 2012 he had reversed his position.
3. He favors allowing women to become
priests.
When
Pope Francis visited Washington, D.C., in September 2015, Kaine attended the
pontiff's historic address to Congress. Before the speech, he issued a statement. "If women
are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the
other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in
earthly matters as well," Kaine said. "There is nothing this Pope
could do that would improve the world as much as putting the Church on a path
to ordain women."
4. Kaine is a fan of Pope Francis' "Laudato Si'."
Not
all Catholics thought the pontiff should write an encyclical on a secular issue
such as global warming, but Kaine agrees with Francis' framing of the
issue as one of faith. "I'm sure he's not going to opine on whether a
carbon tax is better than a cap-and-trade mechanism," Kaine said of the pope days before the
encyclical was published in 2015. "That doesn't need to be where he
goes -- but to say, 'You know, you guys and everybody in power these days,
you've got the next generation's future in your hands, and you don't want to
have to face that question later in life: With the science what it was, and
with you having the opportunity to do something about it, why did you choose
not to?'"
5. Kaine speaks openly about his faith.
“My
faith is central to everything I do,” he once told the website Patch. “My faith position is
a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other
person.” And in a recent C-SPAN interview he said: “I do what I do for spiritual reasons. I’m always thinking
about the momentary reality but also how it connects with bigger matters of
what’s important in life.”
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