By MATT SEDDON The last thing the world needs right now is bad theology. We need theology that gives us hope and shows us how to be good neighbors in scary and uncertain times. Theology is not God, nor is theology God’s words. Theology is like a finger pointing at the moon. It is not the moon, but it helps
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By MATT SEDDON Well, everyone, we are now in uncharted waters, and it ain’t much fun. Covid-19 is spreading, and it already seems to be taking so much away from us. At the church I serve, Christ Church, per Mexico City government order, we’ve had to suspend Sunday in-person services and go to online services. Many people are self-quarantining, some
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO “Iron Lady” Named Tax Collector Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez was appointed as Mexico’s new Tributary Administration Service (SAT) director on Thursday, Dec. 18, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). She replaces Margarita Ríos-Farjat, now the 11th member of the Supreme Court of the Nation. Buenrostro (whose last name literally means Good Face) was promoted to the
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By MATT SEDDON Buy! Buy! Buy! Cook! Cook! Cook! Decorate! Decorate! Decorate! These are the messages bombarding us right now from every direction. They make us feel even more frantic and crazy than we already do. We are in conflict-ridden and difficult times, and in the midst of all the distressing messages from the news media and our social media
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By MATT SEDDON As I began finalizing preparations for Holy Week in the church I serve, Denis Hernández Barona crucified himself. The Cuban immigrant chained himself to a cross on the Mexican border with Guatemala to protest against a recent wave of deportations of Cuban migrants. The story caught my eye as I readied my church to remember Jesus carrying
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The ex-Convento de Santa Mónica in the central Mexican city of Puebla has opened a new exhibit of 18th century paintings, engravings and books that showcase the important of these texts within the framework of iconographic compositions. These Novo-Hispanic works 0f art were used by Catholic missionaries in the apostilization of Mexico’s indigenous people. The
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