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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
Whenever I probe a believer on the foundations of their faith, finding themselves fully incapable of producing one rational thought, they faithfully respond with the trite adage “To each their own.” But when you take the time to look around, you notice that it’s mostly the believers who don’t believe in the saying. Just ask Read More
Jim Morrison was right — “people are strange”: “Popular in Mexico, and sometimes linked to the illicit drug trade, the skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte in recent years has found a robust and diverse following north of the border: immigrant small business owners, artists, gay activists and the poor, among others – many Read More
Like most Latinos, I grew up in the Catholic Church; and like most Latinos who grew up in the Catholic Church, I stopped attending mass as soon as my family made not attending a tolerable alternative. But, unlike most Latino Catholics, the more I learned about the world around me, the more I began to Read More