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I found an e-interview I did with pro bono attorney Katie Shepherd, who was managing the “CARA” project at family detention centers. At the time, she stated, ICE was engaged in a wholesale policy shift from “a policy of deterrence through deportation to a policy of deterrence through ...
The Catholic Church ended its support of slavery by 1887. 1888 Brazilian Princess Isabel of Bragança signedImperial Law No. 3,353on May 13, 1888, which is known as theLei Áureaor "Golden Law" ending all forms of slavery(Slavery in Brazil, 2020). Although it was only 18 words long,...
The Vatican City is well known to be an independent state unto itself; in fact it is officially the smallest in the world. Home to the Catholic religion, the world famous Vatican City attracts millions of visitors a year. As one of the top attractions in Rome, the area around the Vatican...
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The Catholic Church had come to the end of its thread; the spool seemed pretty well empty, and he sat down so that he might think better what the new faith might be. What would be its first principle? he asked himself, and, not finding any answer to this question, he began to ...
At the time, this was catnip to youth group leaders looking for a way to make religion cool. And “The Matrix” as religious allegory has stuck. The last 25 years have seen books published with titles like “Escaping the Matrix: Setting Your Mind Free to Experience Real Life in Christ,...
Our journey hasn’t been easy. You have a will and a personality all of your own. You are determined and stubborn beyond belief, eccentric, already marching to the beat of your own drum. For the longest time, you called me Noah—as if we were still one person. You didn’t start spe...
As if things weren’t complex enough, I am also a Roman Catholic and I strongly disagree with the Church’s involvement in politics, or its teachings about public attitudes to sex. That’s hardly the opinion of a potential candidate for the Presidency of the European’s People’s Party. ...