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Church is key to battling poverty in paradise
- Nov 23, 2019
What has been dubbed by many as America’s paradise is not just home to plutocrats, but there’s a surprising degree of poverty and, as ever, the Catholic Church long has been on the front lines of responding to it.
Tanzanian nuns in America’s paradise capture Catholic shift from north to south
- Nov 19, 2019
“To be a missionary is not something easy. Culture, food, everything is different,” Sister Mary Mushi, one of three Tanzanians of the Holy Spirit Sisters serving in Key West, told Crux.
100-year-old Marian promise still brings faith to Key West conchs
- Nov 15, 2019
Nearly 100 years ago a nun in Key West promised that as long as a grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes that she commissioned stands, the island would be protected from hurricanes, and today, that assurance still holds true.
In a surreal setting, the ‘Pastor of Paradise’ projects dogged realism
- Nov 14, 2019
Father John Baker projects a steady calm – neither overly romantic about the beauty and beguiling culture of Key West, nor cowed by the uphill climb it can sometimes pose for the life of faith.
On Catholicism, Key West, and taking comfort in the present
- Nov 10, 2019
One way the Catholic instinct seeps through in Key West is a tendency among locals to compare the present state of the place unfavorably to a half-remembered, half-imagined past.
‘Sin City South’ offers a lesson in religion as kudzu of the cosmos
- Jun 16, 2019
Even in Key West, known as “Sin City South” for its hedonistic atmosphere, organized religion appears to be alive and well.
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