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.
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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.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
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.
Posted inFaith, News
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
GOP governors busing migrants from the border was bad. Some Biden administration policies are even worse.
The transport of nonconsenting asylum seekers is a mainstay of U.S. immigration policy, and certain practices of the Department of Homeland Security have been far more destructive than bussing migrants north.
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Jesuits and local church deplore violence as cartel turf war cut off towns in southern Mexico
“The drug cartels have taken over our territory, and we are under a state of siege, suffering widespread psychosis from narco blockades,” the local Roman Catholic Diocese said in a statement.