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This is the latest scene in a long saga. In the late 19th century, the U.S. government told the Latter-Day Saints that the price of admission to a rich American future was the renunciation of polygamy. The official church and the vast majority of Mormons were happy to come along, but not these few. All these years later, words fail. Modernity comes speaking the language of women's rights, of the dignity and self-determination of children, of limits on the authority of fathers--and even on the authority of prophets. For people who have chosen...
...prophet of the YFZ ranch is himself in prison. For several years, Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), directed his flock and arranged "celestial marriages" (no man with fewer than three wives can attain the Kingdom of God, the FLDS believes) as a fugitive from the law. But he was arrested in 2006 in Las Vegas and convicted last year in St. George, Utah--not on polygamy charges, which have been difficult to prosecute in court, but on charges of being an accomplice to rape after commanding an underage follower to marry an older...
...with the 77 kids who are under age 2. Prosecutors worried that the prayer meetings might be used to influence the children "in a way to impede the ongoing investigation," but Walther's suggestion that mainstream Mormons might serve as neutral monitors was turned down flat by the official church. Church spokesman Scott Trotter told the Salt Lake Tribune that the beliefs of the FLDS long ago diverged from orthodox Mormonism and, "in fact, many in these isolated communities view us with some hostility as part of the outside world they have rejected." For the nursing mothers, the judge offered...
...head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, Colombian-born Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo was a staunch advocate of the Roman Catholic Church's conservative policies, opposing abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage and contraception--at one point calling into question the efficacy of condoms in preventing the spread of HIV. Considered a possible candidate for Pope before Benedict XVI succeeded John Paul II in 2005, López Trujillo was deeply wary of leftist liberation theology and its influence on Latin American Catholicism. "I don't believe that in Latin America, Marxism has any possibilities," he said...
...dependent parts—interstates flowing like arteries and one common heart beating forever into the dawn. For a while, New Orleans did feel like a part of America that was thriving. My friends and I relished the sweeping white columns of St. Louis Cathedral—a church flooded during Hurricane Katrina, but now glowing white and gold. In the French Quarter, we browsed souvenir shops, sampled pralines, and listened to a jazz band perform in an outdoor cafe. But after delighting in the bustle of the French Quarter, we saw another part of New Orleans that didn?...