Bridgeport, Conn., diocesan priest remains unprosecuted for theft

Dear Sir: I didn't appreciate your suggestion that having a Portuguese last name is a terrible recomendation, even if it isn't a Portuguese last name: in Portuguese, it would be SOUSA, wihout DE. Perharps he is a descendant from Portuguese, but they are all over the world. For instance, in Asia you'll find Portuguese last names everywhere. This is a sure sign they descend from Catholics, but not necessarily from Portuguese: in the past, it was common to baptize children with your own name.
Forgive me, but I don't understand either your fetishim with Spanish, that is a sign of domain. Indeed, only in the XV century, after the conquest of Granada, the Castillian "Catholic Kings" began centralizing power and subjecting peoples of other Iberian kingdoms, with diferent cultures and languages; until then, the one who would become the dominant language in the non-Portuguese part of Spain (the Roman's province of Spania, that included all the peninsula), was properly called Castillan; along the centuries, Castille tried to impose, along with its rule, its language; the last efforts were made by Franco, who didn't allow people of so much older Cultures as the Catalans, the Basques or the Galicians to learn, speak or even be baptized with their traditional names.
I would rather object to the inclusion in the list of the head of the Knights of Columbus, the must overrated navigator in all history, idolized by Americans because he "discovered" them, while thinking he was reaching India. Ask the Indians (from India) if they like the confusion with Indians (tribal peoples)... If you need more information, please read the encyclopedical books by Daniel J. Boorstyn, perharps the only non-biased great historian in the USA. Colombus, who studied the rudiments of navigation in Portugal, presented first his project to the Portuguese Kings, who refused it, because they knew it was condemned to failure. After all, Portuguese navigations had started in the early XIV century, and they had very precise knowledge and methods - thanks to Jewish-made maps and Muslim navigation methods.
Neither do I understand your Spanish idealization. Spaniards covered Europe and the world with blood, while the Portuguese neve started a fraticide war for domain in the European continent and are consensualy considered the less bloody colonialists. In fact, the Portuguese never had a colonial empire,in the sense of of a land empire. The model was a Fenician one: the creation of coastal commercial enclaves. Like Macau, who was "given" to Portugal by the Chinese emperors, while the Britsh occupyed by force Hong-Kong. The jewel of the crown is of course Brazil - wich was defended from the France and Netherlands attacks with the help of tribal people (Portuguese were always too few, and always counted with the aid of local kings and chiefs, in Africa, Asia or South America). You would like to go there, and perharps exchange a few words with Leonard Boff. I'm sure you'd love the people.
Excuse my dissertation, but even if I respect your relentless defense of the faith, some times you are driven by a kind of childish enthusiasm that do not serve well your positions. God bless.

P.S. Bishop Flores, from Texas, as for sure a surname that can be either of Portuguese or Spanish origin.