Jesuit-Influenced Senator Tim Kaine Selected as Democratic Vice President Candidate
BY ISN STAFF | July 22, 2016
Senator Timothy Kaine (D-VA) has been selected by Hilary Clinton, former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator, as her vice presidential running mate for the Democratic ticket. Kaine is Catholic and a 1976 graduate of Rockhurst High School, an all-boys Jesuit high school in Kansas City, Missouri. He also spent a year volunteering with a Jesuit missionary from 1980 to 1981. Kaine has served in the U.S. Senate since 2013, joining over fifty fellow-graduates of Jesuit high schools and universities in the 114th Congress. Prior to the Senate he served as the governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, the lieutenant governor from 2002-2006, and the mayor of Richmond, Virginia from 1998 to 2001.
Kaine’s experience volunteering at a Jesuit-run vocational school in the early 1980’s has influenced his continue work in Congress, Kaine continues to be fluent in Spanish and has focused efforts of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on which he serves, on the U.S. role in the violence-plagued Central American country.
Senator Tim Kaine with Fr. Ismael Moreno Coto, S.J. [Ignatian Solidarity Network]
In February 2015, Senator Kaine joined Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a three-day visit to Honduras focused on economic and security challenges facing the country, as well as consideration of President Obama’s then-proposed $1 billion aid package for Central America. In addition to meeting with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Senators spoke with business leaders, members of Honduran civil society, and U.S. officials working to combat gang violence and impunity and promote human rights in a country that significantly contributed to the unaccompanied minors crisis in 2014.
During the trip Senator Kaine had the opportunity to return to El Progreso, a small city outside San Pedro Sula where he volunteered. After attending Ash Wednesday services at Parquia de la Mercedes, a church he regularly attended, Kaine was “welcomed home” to the Instituto Tecnico Loyola by former Jesuit colleagues and more than 300 current students and teachers. Thirty-five years after he taught carpentry and welding there, Kaine toured the expanded campus and spoke to a school-wide assembly, reflecting on his time in Honduras.
“The school has grown rapidly, but the spirit of the people here is exactly the same,” said Kaine. “El Progreso is extremely special to me. My experience working at Loyola taught me the importance of access to skills-based training – both in Honduras and the U.S. – and inspired me to pursue the issue of expanding career and technical education in the U.S. Senate.” While at Loyola, Kaine also visited Radio Progreso & ERIC.
Kaine is not the only member of a 2016 presidential ticket to be educated at a Jesuit institution. Mr. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, studied at Fordham University for two years before transferring to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.
Story about Mr Kaine is inspirational. My only concern is that the most recent Congress, which has not been very inspirational at all, has so many Jesuit-trained individuals.
No mention of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in supporting the coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras! Would like to hear Kaine’s position on that.
thank you Rod
Let me add. Knowing the work of the CIA at the time in Honduras I think anyone would have to be a moron to believe that he was actually helping anyone other then the CIA
The Jesuits are creeps. While most priests from other groups have a sort of fear of them I proudly stand out in front of Fordham every week or two and demonstrate over their willingness to rape boys and refuse to publicly apologize as has happened many times before within the church
Neal Gumpel
Victim of Fordham Jesuit Roy Drake
not a ‘survivor’ (I did not survive)
Most “traditional Catholics” is know are not pro abortion.
All the formation he received and experienced he gain looks great, but we are missing the fact that he is pro choice and this is murder according to the commandments. He may be Catholic, but not according to the church’s teaching HSBC.
His stance on the TPP is flip- floppy, too – like Hillary. I’m a JillnotHill Catholic American.
I have an adopted little sister, and I don’t want anyone to get an abortion, but I struggle with the belief that I as a male have the right to impose a law on a woman’s body.
This guy is a shill for govt corruption society of Jesus should separate itself from this. There no philosophy here nor love of God: pure worship of Manna.
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There has to be a way you are able to remove me from that service?
Appreciate it!