New Mexico’s Catholics don’t think their religious icon belongs in a bikini. The Santa Fe Reporter, a New Mexico alt weekly, is in hot water for running a cartoon featuring Our Lady of Guadalupe in a bikini, sipping on a margarita, on the cover of its “Summer Guide 2013.” “If your intent was to in effect slap Catholics across the face, by putting forth this public depiction of Our Lady as a party girl, during the very week that we honor her as our patroness, then I can only say that from my perspective, you succeeded,” Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz wrote in a letter to the editor published on the Santa Fe Reporter’s website. “I wonder whether the Reporter would feel free to depict Mohammed as...
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