September 24 issue, now online
If you’ve been enjoying Joseph A. Komonchak’s many “Newmania” posts here at dotCommonweal, consider them an appetizer course for the latest issue of the magazine. It’s online now, and you can all click here to read Fr. Komonchak’s survey of the writings and theology of newly beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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“report on the campaign against the Fourteenth Amendment and “birthright citizenship,”
It’s not a campaign “against” the 14th Amendment, it is a campaign to AMEND the 14th Amendment, a process our Constitution specifically calls for. One can disagree with that campaign, but one cannot fairly impugn it as some sort of attack AGAINST the Constitution.
Far better for the people and their representatives to amend the Constitution as it allows, BTW, than for a handful of unelected judges to “discover” Constitutional rights without such an amendment, as we have seen under Roe v. Wade.
P. Flanagan: I’m not sure what you are talking about…Eduardo Moisés Peñalver clearly states “The only way to change all of this would be to amend the Fourteenth Amendment, …” so I fail to see your point unless it is a segway into the Row vs. Wade judicial issue.
More fascinating for me was the picture which headed the story. I had to look up the word Muertes and did a Google search on border fence muertes and found these two additional pictures.
The first shows that the fence is built like an iceberg, most of it isn’t visible. See
http://harmanonearth.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/border-wall-slowdown/
The second is another form of protest similar to the one Commonweal used:
http://blog.bajabound.com/mexico-living-home-show-in-san-felipe/ (scroll to the very bottom picture)
What I want to know is; are these on the Mexican or American side of the fence?