According to “Typically Spanish”:http://www.typicallyspanish.com, my current source for English language Spanish news:
bq. The new conservative Bishop of San Sebastián, José Ignacio Munilla, who has already been rejected by 77% of the priests in the Guipuzcoa region, has said that there are worst things than the earthquake in Haiti, such as ‘our poor spiritual situation’.
bq. ‘Perhaps we suffer a greater mal than the poor people of Haiti’, he said, adding that the people of Spain should cry for ‘our own poor spiritual situation and our materialist concept of life’. The new Bishop then did say that we should help the poor.
See “here”:http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_24723.shtml for more in English; see “here”:http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5gI4D1dE2WVXnXi7ilTLXDfHXV64Q and “here”:http://www.diariodesevilla.es/article/sociedad/607273/munilla/culpa/los/medios/manipular/sus/palabras/sobre/haiti.html for the expected response that his words were taken out of context (in Spanish). Rumors that “Ari Fleisher”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/15/SPKO1BI8NQ.DTL is now advising the Bishop can not be confirmed.