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Our Spanish Legacy in the United States

January 28, 2024

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While listening to the journalistic bombardment on the border crisis the last few weeks (months? years?) and how that’s going to demolish Biden, Trump, or Haley in the race for the presidency, I kept, of course, hearing about Texas. I think the last thing was the Governor of Texas telling the Federal Government that they’re […]

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Popes

January 6, 2023

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Popes The recent passing of Pope Benedict, his memorials, and burial earlier in January 2023, brought to mind another Catholic prelate, hardly known in the twenty first century. He was however an iconic figure of his age in the sixteenth century, a man of Christian wisdom and strength, someone […]

Travels to Spain

December 2, 2018

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Long ago, in some old history textbook, I probably saw the name of Cadiz in Spain first mentioned. It didn’t quite resonate with me as much as other European cities I was learning about as I wandered through school. Berlin, London, Rome they all stuck out as places where big–often bad but sometimes stellar–history was […]