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

…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…

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CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

…the fact that there is already a wall along the vast majority of the U.S.-Mexico border, a January report from the Pew Research Center found that less than half of Americans consider Trump’s much-touted “border wall” to be a priority for immigration reform. It is unclear where Priebus got his information that “80 percent” of Americans want a taller, thicker border wall, but no one onstage today challenged his claim. Among other dubious claims tha…

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

…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…

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GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

…On January 3rd this year, three bullets hit the house of Linda Lopez, New Mexico senator representing District 11. They went through the window of her 10-year-old daughter’s bedroom, who was asleep at the time of the attack, and was awakened by the gunfire. State Representative Javier Martínez, having heard of the attacks, checked his house—and found bullet holes. All of the targets were elected Democrats. The man arrested for allegedly orchestra…

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Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

…’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…

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Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

…was a founding father of the states we now call Utah, California, and New Mexico. He also stole horses by the thousands from the California missions and enslaved hundreds of Paiute Indians, whom he sold at slave auctions in New Mexico and Utah. Wakara was a great and terrible man. But we know little about him. And what we know comes from the archive of his exploits—often called “Indian depredations”—recorded and stored in the colonial archive. Wa…

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Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

…d 1947’s widely reported crash of a mysterious object outside Roswell, New Mexico, was full of sightings of odd flying objects and occasionally of their pilots. Reflecting the optimism of the early nuclear age, a good number of these experiences portrayed these extraterrestrials as comical, or even friendly. A journalist named Frank Scully wrote a book claiming that aliens dressed in “the style of 1890” had been recovered from a saucer crash in th…

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Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

…night dancing with, someone who I had spoken to just a week before on the phone, her laughter weakened but still familiar. When I thought about her ashes being scattered around Boston I felt a momentary panic. Where could I ever go to find her again? Last week, just in time for the Feast of All Soul’s Day, celebrated each year on November 2, the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a new Instruction regarding the…

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Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

…believed the US has descended into oligarchy, had been living in southern Mexico. He had returned to Winchester for treatment after his diagnosis. Bageant’s strength as a writer was that he could write both with great affection for his ancestry, but with a remarkable clear-eyed honesty of the weaknesses and flaws in those from whom he descends. His works were no Greatest Generation mythos. Consequently, he provides valuable insight into why so ma…

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Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

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