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The Santa Fe New Mexican Jul. 10—The first atomic blast that lit up the early morning sky at the Trinity Site in south-central New Mexico on July 16, 1945 — an event that opened the door for two nuclear bombs to be dropped on Japan — had an immense impact on the state that is…

Because of Trinity, New Mexico will be forever linked to the two bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

He was the pastor of Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe prior to his dismissal.

Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York sent messages of support to a Catholic LGBTQ conference organized by Outreach, led by Father James Martin, SJ.

Introduction According to former Benedictine monk and psychotherapist-writer Richard Sipe: In 2004 a reliable source of information about the Catholic Church made me aware of document about the American hierarchy that was composed by a small group of insiders including at least one bishop. That document claimed and named 134 bishops that they said were homosexual in orientation or behavior.

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Francis says nuclear weapons offer only illusion of peace

With the Supreme Court allowing an Illinois assault weapons ban to stay in place, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has reiterated his call, and that of the body of U.S. bishops, for the entire country to adopt legislation of the same kind.

The letter is signed by Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe, Archbishop Etienne of Seattle, and Archbishop Michiaki Nakamura and Bishop Mitsuru Shirahama of Nagasaki.

In an unusual shared statement, two U.S. archbishops joined with the Japanese bishops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to call on the G-7 summit to "undertake concrete steps toward global, verifiable nuclear disarmament."