By MATT SEDDON On Jan. 22, desperate parents of children with cancer demonstrated and caused a significant amount of chaos at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport. They were fighting for the lifesaving medications their children needed — medications they said they could not obtain. The leader of the protest received a call from a high-level government official, who assured him the
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By MATT SEDDON Like everyone else, I watched the terrible and tragic killings in El Paso and Dayton on Saturday, Aug. 3, and Sunday, Aug. 4, with horror and deep sadness. As an U.S. citizen, I felt profound loss and empathy for the victims and their families, as well as frustration, helplessness and despair as mass shootings, which we Americans
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By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City In 1514, five years before Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of what is now México, the first Spanish priest ordained in the Americas, Bartolomé de las Casas, realized something was terribly wrong. He had benefited from the Spanish colonial encomienda system, which granted the labor of natives to the Spanish.
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By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City The most common thing that archaeologists discover when they excavate is ash. Before I was an Anglican priest, I was an archaeologist. I excavated many different sites. Some were more than 6,000 years old, others only a few hundred years old. And I can unequivocally say that the most common thing
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While most Mexicans were glued to their seats watching the unprecedented swearing-in ceremony of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Dec. 1, members and friends of Christ Church Anglican Parish were busy getting a head start on their holiday shopping at the chapel’s annual Christmas bazaar in Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. The
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