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    • Republicans' racist, sexist, homophobic assault May 20, 2012
      (ALTERNET)  By Sarah Seltzer It seems like with every cultural step forward by the country on the whole, the right-wing has to take a few leaps backward — and women, gays and minorities are the victims. This month has already brought some great moments: massive protests on May 1 and the historic cultural moment when a sitting US […]
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    • Who is Barack Obama? May 20, 2012
      (PJ MEDIA) By Roger Kimball So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday — or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president — a […]

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    Liberation Theology: What Happened in Latin America? Part VII

    Thursday, July 7th, 2011

    Nicaragua Arguably the most powerful display of the political influence of liberation theology took place in Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.  It also represents the zenith of the movement as a force for change in Latin America, which quickly ended and signaled its immediate decline.  The direct involvement of Catholic clergy in a socialist [...]

    Liberation Theology: What Happened in Latin America? Part VI

    Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

    Argentina The intellectual and theological base had been laid in Rome and Medellin, and the messages were being relayed to the intended audience, but the real test of the theories had yet to be applied in the real world.  The founding fathers of the Latin American liberation movement in the Church emphasized the importance of [...]

    Liberation Theology: What Happened in Latin America? Part V

    Thursday, June 9th, 2011

    Challenges from Other Sources Liberation theology, which had proven to be one of the most powerful and compelling developments for social and political change in Latin America during the three decades following Vatican II, began to witness great resistance from theological and political forces in the 1990s.  More conservative elements of the Catholic Church, who [...]

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