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Big Deal?0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
Five years ago Roman Catholic priest David Pettingill lamented, “Sometimes I think the Second Vatican Council is the church’s best-kept secret.” This church scholar could hardly have imagined that a year later a new pope would be elected and that his assessment might need to be revisited. Viewing the Roman Catholic Church today through the
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What’s Yours Is Mine No Treaties, No Boundary Lines 0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
Illustration by Robert Hunt The recent Dakota Access Pipeline saga reminds us of the long ongoing struggle for Native American rights. Dakota Territory, July 1874 Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clinched the reigns of his regal brown-and-white sorrel horse, then squinted hard into the distance. Ahead lay a dark patch sprawled across the ascending Dakota
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Aristotle and Darwin and First Causes 0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
Santana Was Wrong: Those Who Remember History Can Still Be Doomed to Repeat It In contrast to his comparatively stick-in-the-mud predecessor, Benedict XVI, Pope 266, Pope Francis, is quite the progressive, at least as progressive as one could be as the head of an institution sitting on about 1,500 years of tradition. But whether dissing
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The Irony of Karma 0
- May/June 2018
- May 1, 2018
During the time of the Inquisition Goa, India, was the location of Inquisitorial proceedings led by the Catholic Church. Several centuries later it appears that karma has played out its hand in a role reversal. In modern India a militant pro-Hindu revival has resulted in the violent deaths of Christians (and Muslims)—and even the strangulation
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