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Why all the Pope hating?

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Last week BL ran two consecutive articles giving the atheist point of view (here and here), and this Christian gets it! It was a hard week for atheists. You had the appointment of a new Pope, and the Catholic Church was everywhere, so I get the reaction. Of the two articles my FB friend Hector Read More

Why the first Latino pope is a bad thing

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Proving most predictions moot, the Vatican’s College of Cardinals elected (with the Holy Spirit’s counsel, of course) Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, as the new head of the Catholic Church. Widely considered by colleagues and his porteño parishoners as a humble man, upon assuming his new role as the spiritual leader for Read More

The Pope, Cuba and the inconvenience of faith

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The world is a beautiful place—injustices are always decried and, eventually, vanquished. Jesus’ love conquers all. This was a tenet of my faith that was only strengthened during classes I took to prepare for the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation. When it came time to pick my Confirmation saint, this sense of justice motivated me Read More