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Category Archives: politics
Will the Pope Make Time for Cuba’s Dissidents?
Cross-posted on the Corner Washington Post: HAVANA — Pope Francis plans to meet with Cuba’s president and its priests, its young and its sick, its churchgoers and its seminarians as he travels around the island starting Saturday. But not with … Continue reading
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Bangladesh: Darkness Falls
When a sub-headline begins like this…: Niloy Chakrabarti was only the latest atheist blogger to be hacked to death in the country this year. That refers to the murder of Chakrabarti, slaughtered by a group of attackers in his appartment … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Bangladesh, blasphemy and defamation of religion, Islamic fundamentalism
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Is A Papal Lecture on US Immigration on the Way?
Cross-posted on the Corner: Will Pope Francis use the privileged platform—an address to Congress—that he has been given (why?) by Speaker Boehner next month to say something about immigration? Roll Call: Many advocates for revamping immigration laws have tried to … Continue reading
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The Pope and Peronism
Cross-posted on the Corner. Uki Goñi has written an article for the New York Times on Pope Francis’s Peronist roots.Here’s an extract: Less known is that Perón took his cue from the politicized Catholic leaders of ’30s Argentina. Church leaders … Continue reading
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The Francis Effect?
I’ve no doubt that Pope Francis’s visit to the US will be a great success (and I have very little doubt that Speaker Boehner will come to regret having invited the pontiff to speak to a joint session of Congress). … Continue reading
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“In a battle of facile narratives, the one with more action wins”
Writing in the Independent, Howard Jacobson on reactions to the terrorist atrocities in London ten years ago and some uncomfortable truths about which ‘narratives’ appeal: “We need a counter-narrative.” How often have we heard that since 7/7? We need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, UK
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Pope Francis in Bolivia: The ‘Dung of the Devil’ and Other Matters
Cross-posted on the Corner. Even by the standards of this pontiff, Pope Francis’s speech yesterday in Bolivia to a crowd that included the country’s president wearing a jacket emblazoned with the face of a mass-murderer (Che Guevara, in case you … Continue reading
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Pope Francis and the “Poverty of Ambition”
Writing for the Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin on Pope Francis’s Laudato Si: With Francis’s pontifical blessing , the greens have now found a spiritual hook that goes beyond the familiar bastions of the academy, bureaucracy, and the media and reaches … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, environmentalism, Peronism, Pope Francis, Religious Left
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The Encyclical – Old Nonsense in New (Green) Clothing
Writing in Reason, Brendan O’Neill takes a more secular look at the Pope’s eco-encyclical: Here’s an extract: [W]hat will be the end result of our wicked urge to own things? Mayhem, of course. All the pollution produced in the making … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse, Climate Change, Pope Francis, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism
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A Premodern/Postmodern Pope?
Cross-posted on the Corner. From First Things, an interesting take on the pope’s eco-encyclical by R.R. Reno. Here’s an extract: “Everything is connected” is [the Pope’s] mantra in Laudato Si. True to this principle, Francis links his suspicion of science … Continue reading
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