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Sadly, the tragedy of African migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea has become even more commonplace than the tragedy of American blacks dying in encounters with the police. According to the International Organization for Migration, 1,412 migrants lost their lives on the latter-day Middle Passage – from Africa to Europe – just this year (as… Read more.
There was considerable disagreement among the Catholic clergy and political commentariat about the wisdom of Francis dignifying Myanmar with a papal visit. But there was consensus that, if he did, he would face a categorical imperative to not only condemn this country’s genocidal sins but dare to speak the name of the victims of those… Read more.
Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of historical sexual assault offenses, a stunning decision certain to rock the highest levels of the Holy See. … In 2014, Francis won cautious praise from victims’ advocacy groups when he created a commission of outside experts to advise him and the broader… Read more.
It might seem a contradiction, if not an apostasy, that this pope considers the Jewish candidate a better messenger of Christian values than any of the Christian candidates running for president. But this should come as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about the basic tenets of Christianity; to say nothing of the historical symmetry Bernie represents: Jesus… Read more.
U.S. bishops living in Italy enjoy luxurious new renovations to their living quarters, despite Pope Francis’s edict that church officials ought to live more humbly. Upon his election in 2013, Pope Francis said that he wanted a church ‘that is poor and is for the poor.’ He arrived with a plan to reform the priorities… Read more.
Americans are rolling out the red carpet for Pope Francis in ways never seen before. The unprecedented pomp and ceremony began with both President Obama and Vice President Biden leading a delegation to greet him at the airport on Tuesday, when he set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in his life. The… Read more.
This might seem a surreal joke, but Ireland has become the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a national referendum. Ireland’s citizens have voted in a landslide to legalize gay marriage, electoral officials announced Saturday — a stunningly lopsided result that illustrates what Catholic leaders and rights activists alike called a… Read more.
History is replete with episodes of people migrating in droves from one place to another in search of a better life. And, in far too many cases, their migration challenged them to make it through a known hell to get to an uncertain heaven. Hispanics and Haitians migrating to America blighted the twentieth century in… Read more.
From day one, I was among far too few non-Muslims condemning Charlie Hebdo for publishing anti-Muslim cartoons. It’s one thing to defy Islamic jihadists to expose human rights and other abuses Muslims perpetrate in the name of Islam — as Hirsi Ali and van Gogh did with their film. It’s quite another to do so merely to propagate… Read more.
Just last week, I condemned Pope Francis for denying the Dalai Lama’s request for an audience to appease the Chinese. Not since Peter denied Jesus, thrice, has there been a more craven (and venal) case of one holy man denying another. (“In Denying Dalai Lama, Pope more Politician than Pontiff,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 15,… Read more.
