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The contributions of the Jesuits to life in the new world were celebrated in the Church of San Pedro. The photograph below is of the place where they met and worshipped. Meanwhile back in the Palace of the Inquisition life was not quite so simple. Here they rooted out bad thoughts, witchcraft, Judaism, wicked sexual […]

Gulliver’s Travels is one of my favorite books. Swift was both scatological and religious at the same time, an 18th Century version of Monty Python. I had read the children’s version where Gulliver goes to Lilliput, gets tied down but then had to wait another twelve years before reading all four books, unexpurgated. I grew