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On Arizona: “We are witnessing the early stages of ethnic cleansing”
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jmcgee
Is it hyperbole? A Unitarian minister, Rev. Peter Morales, describes his arrest for protesting Arizona’s new immigration law, and concludes: I was a journalist before entering seminary to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. I like to think of myself as less naïve than many of my colleagues. I have lived in Peru and in Spain…
Anne Rice: “I have to, in the name of Christ, step away from this…”
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jmcgee
A few days after her bombshell announcement that she’s “quitting Christianity,” author Anne Rice has given a lengthy interview to the Los Angeles Times to explain herself: Q) You were raised Catholic, became an atheist, then returned to Catholicism in 1998. Why are you quitting now? It’s not as if the church has suddenly changed.…
Lord, hear our prayer: Benedictine sisters cope with tragedy
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jmcgee
Sister Denise Mosier, OSB August 26, 1943 – August 1, 2010 The tragic story of the Benedictine nun killed in a Virginia car crash has grabbed a lot of headlines — but so should this story, about how her community is coping: There is an amazing backdrop this week for the Benedictine nuns in Virginia…
Arrested for praying: case dismissed
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jmcgee
Earlier in the week, I posted on the man arrested for praying outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. (There’s also a video of the act that some thought criminal.) Well, the charges have now been dropped: This afternoon, in a wake of national attention to the case, the Thomas More Society secured a dismissal of all…
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