Showing posts with label Latinos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latinos. Show all posts
Sunday, April 19, 2020

While the Elderly, Minorities, and the Imprisoned Die, A Push to "Re-Open" the Country by "Pro-Life" Christian Republicans

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Reported US coronavirus deaths: 7 weeks ago: 0 deaths 6 weeks ago: 17 deaths 5 weeks ago: 49 deaths 4 weeks ago: 249 deaths 3 weeks ...
Friday, August 9, 2019

"Responding with the Biggest Ever Anti-Immigrant Raid to the First Ever Anti-Latino, Anti-Immigrant Gun Massacre in This Country: This Will Be History"

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Regardless of whatever they say and whatever comes out of the president's mouth, this IS the story of how our government responded t...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

SIX HUNDRED ICE Agents Haul Away 680 Workers as Man in White House Heads to El Paso: What "Pro-Life" White Christians Have Wrought

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HAPPENING NOW: In Forrest, Mississippi where one of the #ICE raids happened nearby Children of those who were arrested are left alone in...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Articles About Human Rights and Assaults on Minority Groups in Era of Trump: "ICE Has Been Targeting Those Weakest, According to Reports"

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Articles about matters of human rights and assaults on minority groups in the era of Trump that I've read this week and want to p...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Holding the Moral Center As Trump Takes Office: "We Must Resist. There Are No Sidelines. There Is No Middle Ground."

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

A Reader Writes (But Not to Me): Impossible to Talk About "the Catholic Vote" Without Talking About Difference Between White and Hispanic Catholics

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Another "reader writes" posting today — though this one is a comment at another site, not a Bilgrimage comment. At Religion Dis...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Charles Pierce on Hispanic Catholics As Key to "Catholic Vote" in 2016 Elections

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Non-white Catholics are voting 71% for Clinton & 13% for Trump. @PRRIPoll — Thomas Reese, S.J. (@ThomasReeseSJ) August 28, 2016 ...
Monday, August 29, 2016

In the News: Slight But Discernible Trend of White Catholics Away from Trump — What Does It Mean?

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The Blogger platform (which I use here) has a new feature that allows bloggers to designate a "featured post" on the blog...
Monday, June 20, 2016

"They Put Us in Closets and Do All They Can to Keep Us There": More on the Catholic Erasure of LGBTQ People from the Narrative About Orlando

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"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker — Broderick Greer (@BroderickG...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Juan Felipe Herrera, First Latino U.S. Poet Laureate: "My Main Goal Was to Shake Hands with as Many People as Possible, of All Ages, and to Reshake Them into Poetry"

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Natasha Hakimi comments on the appointment of Juan Felipe Herrera to the position of U.S. poet laureate: as she notes, Herrera is the son...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Richard Rodriguez's Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: Depending on Women "to Protect the Church from Its impulse to Cleanse Itself of Me"

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For the San Francisco Chronicle , Lesley Hazleton reviews Richard Rodriguez's new book, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography . As ...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Bishop John Shelby Spong on 2012 Elections: U.S. in a "New Place"

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And yet more post-election commentary, this from noted Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong, who maintains that the 2012 elections move...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Peter Laarman to Samuel Rodriguez: Theocratic Agendas and Aging White Men

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At Religion Dispatches, Peter Laarman writes a heartfelt open letter, ordained pastor to ordained pastor,  to Samuel Rodriguez, pres...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Also in the News: The New America and Challenges Ahead

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And yet more end-of-week snippets of news on themes political and religious, from commentary that caught my eye in recent days:
Friday, November 9, 2012

The GOP's Very Bad Night: The Racial Subtext That Is Not Subtextual at All

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As I post this piece this morning, the lead article at the CNN site is Tom Cohen's analysis of the challenge now facing the Republ...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

New America of 2012 Elections: Implications for Religious Conservatives and American Catholic Centrists

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Vis-a-vis religion-and-politics news, one of the big narratives emerging from this election cycle is the increasing impotence of t...

Post-Election Commentary: History Turning a Corner with the New America

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This morning, a selection of post-election commentary from the last two days that, to my mind, makes valuable points and raises inter...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Winners of U.S. Elections: Women, Gays, Latinos, People of Color, Climate, Young People (Losers: Angry White Males, Catholic Bishops, Knights of Columbus)

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Well, that was quite a night, wasn't it?  I couldn't be happier to have been proven very wrong about my fears that the Republ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

National Catholic Reporter Editorials on Catholic Winners, Catholic Losers in U.S. Elections

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Two valuable editorial statements from National Catholic Reporter as election day arrives in the U.S.: the first maintains that thre...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Church-Going Latino Catholics Favor Same-Sex Marriage: The Surprise of the Centrist Catholic Commentariat

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Also in the news, Latino Catholics and their stance regarding gay marriage: at the Commonweal  blog site, Paul Moses notes  that a re...