Edwin Hernandez

Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Religion, University of Notre Dame

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Research Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Religion at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana

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President Bush is giving the full head-of-state treatment to Pope Benedict XVI , a powerful critic of the war in Iraq, not to mention capital punishment and the boycott of Cuba.

Pope Benedict and Catholic America

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