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“Professor” David Barton On Immigration: God Drew Our Borders

By Julie Ingersoll

…chools, but in every aspect of our national life! Never mind that just because two things seem to happen at the same time doesn’t make them causally linked. Yesterday Barton’s Wallbbuilders radio show was on illegal immigration. Barton donned his “biblical scholar” hat to inform us that, “its God, not man, who establishes the borders of nations.” Citing Deuteronomy 32:8, he said: When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divid…

Vatican Official Challenges Excommunication in Brazil

By Frances Kissling

…tin American context, where abortion is increasingly being decriminalized (Mexico City, Colombia in the last two years) physicians are carefully considering their options. In much of the developing world the situation faced by the young Brazilian child is not so rare. More than a half million women a year die in childbirth; some from botched abortions, but many because they could not get an abortion in high risk pregnancies. If doctors had some se…

Why Did the Pope Choose Cuba?

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…peaking Latin America, where the majority of Catholics live. The choice of Mexico, with the second-largest Catholic population globally, seems obvious. What isn’t obvious is the decision to visit this island nation where Catholicism has struggled for the past 50 years. The answer is found in the verb tense. The Church in Cuba is no longer struggling. The papal trip is getting significant coverage by the media because it’s Cuba, as opposed to, say,…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…icz edited is silent. Much of the imagery comes from Wojnarowicz’s time in Mexico in the 1980s, and shot on Super-8 film. Mexican Day of the Dead ceremonies mix with Aztec statues; scenes of professional wrestling merge with cockfights and bullfights; strong crucifixion imagery merges with street scenes from Mexican cities and towns; a man masturbates, mummified bodies appear to come alive, butchers carry cow carcasses, and through it all a sombre…

Catholics Are Facing a Very Real Emergency

By Mary E. Hunt

…reassigned from Pennsylvania were sent to a treatment center for sexual abusers in New Mexico and later assigned to parishes, hospitals, and other institutions in that locale. The mind boggles at the extent of the abuse pandemic and bishops’ chess moves. To expect priests who have lived under the current way of doing things to have anything helpful to preach or teach about it is naïve. Without serious remedial courses on administration, public sa…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ore modern dress that will allow them to more effectively champion their causes in the halls of power. Frank’s calm, respectful, portraits reveal that dilemma without words, such as this photograph of a young woman yet to cross the hemline divide. * * * Sharman Apt Russell went back to the land, moved into town, wandered into the desert again, and literally kept reading every step of the journey, her nose in a book as she explored the mesas and ri…

Texas Board of Education to Review Intelligent Design-Promoting Materials for Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…claims. An organization called International Databases Inc., based in New Mexico, has submitted supplementary material featuring outright promotion of intelligent design. NCSE’s Josh Rosenau also said the material was filled with misspellings and typos. According to TFN: NCSE found creationist claims and factual errors throughout International Databases’ materials, including: * Religious claims such as “life on Earth is the result of intelligent…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…ntic love. For Theodore, his love for Samantha is a transcendent truth because it fulfills him in a way that his previous loves have not. Despite his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s caustic analysis that Samantha is perfect for him because he is incapable of dealing with actual human beings, Theodore has accepted what makes Samantha most human, her obvious flaw. Relative to what he thinks he should be doing to find “the one,” Theodore has transcended his pre…

Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…hildren to school for fear that police would pick them up and send them to Mexico. Many refused to talk to me at all, fearing something they said could get someone they know deported. A pastor kicked me off the grounds of a church that ran a day labor site, saying that lawyers prohibited anyone there speaking to the press. What made the incident so sad was that the church, Southside Presbyterian, birthed the Sanctuary Movement in the early 80s. It…

It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…” because he made sacrifices to protect indigenous peoples from colonial abuse. St. Junípero Serra came to colonial Mexico in 1749 and, upon arriving in California, helped to found mission San Diego in 1769. During that time, he believed himself to be fulfilling the will of God by bringing the gospel to peoples in California who had not yet heard it. Compared to some of his contemporaries, certainly, Serra fought to protect indigenous peoples. For…