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Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…’re about to be kicked out again.” Eat Oysters While You Can Meanwhile, in Mexico Beach, Florida, at the tiny Regent’s restaurant, patrons lined up at the bar ordering Apalachicola oysters. As Great Britain played the United States in the World Cup on the television overhead, people ate quietly, reverently. Each oyster a sacrament. Apachicola is famous for its oysters, which are sweet and briny and taste of the Gulf’s clear water and of life’s ear…

Gulf Residents Urged to Unite in Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

…is expected to be upgraded to the season’s first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. But the storm looks like it could be a mixed blessing: On one hand, according to the Associated Press, “skimming vessels may be idled because they can’t operate in such swells. Floating oil-containment booms could be rendered useless by waves slopping over them and may have to be pulled out of the water.” But on the other, “waves churned up by Alex—as high as 12 fee…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…ng them so people don’t need abortions, and/or smuggling the drugs in from Mexico and Canada. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches. We’d see what kind of legal trouble one could get into because the drugs would be given away and are legal in Mexico and Canada. This kind of civil action, I don’t even know if it’s civil disobed…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…of a zombie apocalypse. Local TV stations in California, Michigan, and New Mexico also had zombie hackers co-opt their emergency systems. Add to that list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it used to be. And you’d be right. D…

Indulgences Are Back At Last!

By Kate Childs Graham

The Sixth World Meeting of Families will be held this week in Mexico City. The meeting, with the theme of “The family, teacher of human and Christian values,” organized by the pontifical council of the family, will bring together clergy and lay people from over 90 countries. The following message from Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the pontifical council for the family, reveals the tenor of the conference: The family today must confront,…

In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016

By Patricia Miller

…OP contender Donald Trump in February on his return from a six-day trip to Mexico, where he visited the U.S.-Mexico border. In response, Trump called Francis “disgraceful.” Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, as in the one that I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear. –On the same trip, Francis suggested that women could use contraception to avoid becoming infected with the Zika virus, which had been…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Blade’s Michael Lavers, who reports that attendees included activists from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 sta…

A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”

By Peter Manseau

In the dry red soil of Chimayo, New Mexico, there is a hole in the ground that some call holy. They intend no pun, no play on words. The hole is a serious matter; the locals who tend to it would no more joke about their humble opening in the earth than they would a hole in the head, or the heart. An arm’s length in diameter and just deep enough that the temperature seems to drop when you lean in for a closer look, the hole has been here for centu…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…mmigration in the United States, the tension between the United States and Mexico. One reason people are coming here is that with industrial farming in Mexico, the water sources are increasingly drying up and people are moving farther and farther north, trying to get access to good water. That’s going to be a continuing flashpoint. It doesn’t have a lot to do with the fact that immigrants want refrigerators and nice suburban homes. It has to do wi…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…being, and I think that’s what unites us.” Given Bannon’s long history of promoting white nationalism and his fondness for the so-called “alt-right,” it doesn’t take a scholar to read between the lines about which culture Bannon believes unites true Americans. Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee: Sanctuary Cities Are An Affront to Our Sovereignty? Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke opened his remarks on Friday morning’s panel titled “When Did WW…