His Catholicism was enriched by an image of God as “older than all need,” an image that reflected the ancient wisdom of his people.
Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous parishioners shocked by removal of ‘Apache Christ’ icon from their New Mexico church
Indigenous Catholics in New Mexico are reeling after an image of Christ as an Apache holy man was taken from a Mescalero mission. The church’s pastor has fallen under suspicion of complicity in the removal.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Interview: Kevin Costner on resurrecting the Western in ‘American Saga’
With “Horizon: An American Saga,” Mr. Costner has realized an idea 36 years in the making.
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Deceased Spanish Jesuit accused of abusing ‘hundreds’ of Indigenous girls
Spanish Jesuit Luis María Roma, who died in 2019, was recently discovered to have abused hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural Bolivia, and to have documented his acts in a diary.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Indigenous peoples struggle to recover from genocidal campaign unleashed under Brazil’s President Bolsonaro
Over the four-year administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, between 2019 and 2023, 570 Yanomami children perished as 20,000 wildcat miners, known in Brazil as garimpeiros, tore up the forest in what should have been protected Yanomami territory, seeking gold, tin and minerals used in contemporary hi-tech products.
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Exclusive: Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the American Dream and his new film about Jesus
The struggle for faith ‘is a struggle from which everything else emanates,’ says the storied director.
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Church burnings in Canada tied to unproven discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools
In response to unproven claims of graves near the Kamloops Indian Residential School, at least 85 Catholic churches in Canada have been vandalized or set ablaze, raising concerns among the Catholic Civil Rights League.
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The Climate Refugees of Honduras
Small farmers here in the middle of Central America’s dry corridor are almost totally reliant on rainfall to water their crops. As those rains become less reliable because of climate change, crop failures and then migration are the results.
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Preaching in Native American communities responding to generational trauma
On “Preach,” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Victor Cancino, S.J., explore how preachers might respond to generational trauma, particularly in Native American communities. “I think doing the work of looking at your own life,” says Victor,“ allows you to be vulnerable, and you give the freedom to people listening to you to practice the same thing.”
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How the Osage Nation became Catholic: The hard truths in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” explores a moment in American history not often read in history books—and not always reckoned with by our churches and country.