While the candidates jousted through the end of the election season, migrant encounters along the U.S. southwestern border continued a sharp fall in fiscal year 2024. But why?
Mexico
Posted inFaith, News
Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state
Father Marcelo Pérez, an Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist, was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Mexico’s Catholic Church hopes for a better relationship with President Claudia Sheinbaum
Mexico’s bishops wished Ms. Sheinbaum well. They urged her to govern for all Mexicans, even though she has a congressional majority large enough to permit constitutional changes without seeking support from her political opposition.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Finding faith and belonging at New York City’s Mexican Independence Day celebrations
In my search for good music and celebration, I found Catholicism and a yearning for community.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Mexico’s first woman president will face border, crime and climate challenges
López Obrador says he plans to go quietly into political retirement, but AMLO playing Benedict to Claudia Sheinbaum’s Francis will be just one of the incoming Mexican president’s major challenges.
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Catholic bishops congratulate Mexico’s first female and Jewish president
“We will also respect political, social, cultural and religious diversity. Gender and sexual diversity. We will always continue to fight against any form of discrimination,” President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said.
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Kidnapped Catholic bishop who mediated between Mexican cartels is found and hospitalized
Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a retired bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico, was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The ‘Catholic agnostic’ novelist: How Graham Greene questioned his way to God
Graham Greene crafted some of English-language literature’s finest works, part of a fascinating life marked by bouts of uncertainty and the certainty of doubt.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Mexico’s President López Obrador attacks Jesuit human rights advocates
The president devoted more than 20 minutes of his press conference to an attack on Centro Prodh and its activism for human rights in Mexico. He charged, without offering any evidence, that Centro Prodh’s work is influenced by political actors from opposition parties.
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Review: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s books continue to cast a spell over readers.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novels ‘Silver Nitrate’ and ‘Mexican Gothic’ feature complicated heroines, compelling plots and supernatural elements solidly grounded in research.