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Columbus Day Celebrates a Christian Doctrine That Authorized Centuries of Violence — and Continues to Threaten American Democracy

By Robert P. Jones

…pon and indeed helped crystallize: the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. As Spain and Portugal ramped up their exploration and colonization efforts in the latter half of the fifteenth century, the self-described Christian kings and queens sought a moral mandate that would simultaneously address their obligations to newly discovered peoples and mitigate bloodshed between themselves. They turned to the closest thing to international law that existed…

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Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History

By Bradley Onishi

…published at the behest of Western political powers, such as the kings of Spain and Portugal. What spurred them was the lands that were previously unaccounted for. And so the real question was: What rights do we have vis-a-vis these people in these lands? And it basically says that if you encounter any lands where the people are not Christian, you have permission and the blessing of the church and the power of the state to conquer, to kill, to su…

Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…he Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina this weekend. Catholic leaders in Spain have lined up corporate sponsors for Benedict the XVI’s visit in August, much to the chagrin of some Spanish priests. The Pope’s plans for a solar-powered popemobile failed but he was able to get a hybrid. The Vatican isn’t giving up on technology, though, as they are lending out iPods to pilgrims at basilicas with an app that highlights the location’s history and arc…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…s of the term human dignity in his UN speech, he was serving the entirely witting and morally insistent aims of others. The cadre of illiberal Catholic conservatives in the United States, and in European Catholic nations such as Hungary, Poland, Italy, and Spain, certainly knew what ideologies and programs Trump’s ideal of human dignity was underwriting. In this sense, human dignity—like other terms of art in Catholic natural law—is a trojan horse…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…s ago when, in publishing early pictures of war’s death and destruction in Spain and China, Life stated, “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” This last line is crucial, and applies as well to today’s wars as it did to the conflicts of a half century ago. By the 1960s, it was film that brought us images of death. Abraham Zapruder’s visual documentation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination creates one type of image:…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…enteredthe Convent Dominican Sisters of Saint Mary Magdalene in Salamanca, Spain in 1703 and professed her vows as Therese Juliana of Saint Dominic in 1704. Generally regarded as the first black nun in a Spanish cloister, Chikabaremained in the convent until her death in 1748. She is currently under consideration for sainthood. In the nineteenth century, several American-born women of African descent also became nuns in Europe. Barred from becomin…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…in figure drawing classes wear bathing suits. I also did a study abroad in Spain through the art program, with trips to Paris and London and so forth. I remember a conversation with a male art student in the program, a sculptor, who said that all nudity in art was pornographic. Of course I argued with him about it, and I think that most art students aren’t that extreme. But it shocked me. When did photographing Mormon women become a project you wa…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…ng his ideas from the Jews. Such accusations were especially prominent in Spain, where, in the fifteenth century, terrible oppression led to massive Jewish conversion. But tens of thousands of converts did not ease the minds of the Christian authorities. Instead they grew increasingly fearful of being unable to tell who was a Jew or secretly Judaizing. The 1492 expulsion—Nirenberg calls it “extinction”—of Spanish Jewry did nothing to mitigate the…

“Joseph Smith Himself Viewed Women as Priesthood Holders”

By Joanna Brooks

…mber” of the LDS Church. She served a mission for the Church in Barcelona, Spain, graduated from Brigham Young University in 2006, and married in the Salt Lake City Mormon temple. She is also an international human rights law attorney who, she reports, “graduated from the only law school in the world founded by women—American University.” This year, she helped launch a coalition of Mormon women and men who support women’s ordination in the LDS Chu…

No Father, The Gay Sky Isn’t Falling

By Jay Michaelson

…4 sweep for marriage equality in the United States, as well as progress in Spain and France), this reasoning suggests that Church spokesmen have learned nothing from the last several years of public discourse on the matter. It did not address any of the data we have for why moderates in Minnesota voted for marriage equality—concerns about fairness, distinctions between religious and civil marriage—and indeed suggests a rather cloistered view of th…