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Spreading the Word: Latin America’s Shift Away From Catholicism
Ever since missionaries descended on Latin America during the European colonization of the 16th and 17th centuries, Catholicism has been the dominant religion of the region, from Puerto Rico to Chile. Home to 425 million Catholics, Latin America is home to over 40 percent of the world’s Catholic population. Brazil and Mexico boast the world’s…
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A Sordid Legacy
A Twitter handle and Gucci loafers do not a modernizer make. The announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation (the first in nearly 600 years) forces Catholics, and the world at large, to determine the legacy of a pontiff who served at one of the most trying times in history for the Catholic Church. Caught…
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