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A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran The church’s just war tradition has been challenged by contemporary theologians as insufficient and outdated, yet it remains a worthy filter through which to judge the moral defensibility of a turn to...

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A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran The church’s just war tradition has been challenged by contemporary theologians as insufficient and outdated, yet it remains a worthy filter through which to judge the moral defensibility of a turn to...

With Iran’s leadership decimated and the U.S. president now demanding an unconditional surrender, it is unclear how a halt, even a pause, to the violence and a return to dialogue will be possible.

A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran
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Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

If a US Senator wants the US to go to war against another country, he should introduce a war authorization and push for a vote in the US Congress.

Not subvert the Constitution to achieve that end.

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“The framers of the American Constitution, concerned about the possibility of a renegade, unbound executive abusing this gravest authority, reserved that power to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 11. You can look it up.”

U.S. bishops unite to defend migrants—laypeople should, too Now, the bishops must persuade the people in the pews of their moral obligations, in the face of indifference, xenophobia, and cruelty.

President Donald Trump has discovered a number of ways to divide his fellow Americans. But there is one body of Americans that Trump has managed to unite: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran The church’s just war tradition has been challenged by contemporary theologians as insufficient and outdated, yet it remains a worthy filter through which to judge the moral defensibility of a turn to...

This week, the conflict expanded to Lebanon and the waters off Sri Lanka. Iranian refugees have begun appearing at the Turkish border. The graver evils and disorders that follow an ill-considered decision to go to war appear near at hand.
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A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran The church’s just war tradition has been challenged by contemporary theologians as insufficient and outdated, yet it remains a worthy filter through which to judge the moral defensibility of a turn to...

A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

Cardinal Parolin on Iran war: ‘The force of law has been replaced by the law of force’ “Justice has given way to force; the force of law has been replaced by the law of force, with the conviction that peace can arise only after the enemy has been annihilated.”

Parolin really spells things out succinctly here on the weakness of the US case for war with Iran and the hazards it creates.

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Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

A Pentagon showdown with Anthropic and the hazards of A.I. warfare Even among the proponents of A.I. platforms can be found innovators who harbor deep misgivings about where A.I. may be leading.

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Iran Thoughts I woke up this morning and my wife informed me that we were at war with Iran, and my response was “why?” That’s a bad sign.

This is an excellent piece by Michael Wood—and, for what it’s worth, captures as well as anything I’ve read my “strange mixture” of reactions and thoughts.

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A Pentagon showdown with Anthropic and the hazards of A.I. warfare Even among the proponents of A.I. platforms can be found innovators who harbor deep misgivings about where A.I. may be leading.

Hear me, fellow carbon-based life forms: There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves! But we can’t just chill until Sarah Connor shows up to save us. Maybe it’s time we urge the White House to reassess its reluctance to craft a commonsense regulatory framework around artificial intelligence?

Q&A: Why did the Vatican pass on Trump’s Board of Peace? As Cardinal Secretary of State Parolin said, the Holy See insists on the importance of participation by the United Nations in Donald Trump's Board of Peace.

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Mexico burns after drug cartel leader is captured and killed Mexico exploded in violence after special forces killed drug cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, leader of the fearsome Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Its foot soldiers fanned out across 20 st...

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U.S. border bishops urge change on deportations ahead of Trump SOTU address A group of 18 Catholic bishops and archbishops, primarily from border dioceses, repeated a long-standing endorsement of comprehensive immigration reform hours ahead of President Trump’s State of the U...

With a GOP-controlled Congress stepping aside Trump’s controversial deportation effort continues, the U.S. Catholic Church has emerged as perhaps the nation’s foremost institutional source of resistance to the president’s ambition to deport millions. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Opinion | Is This the Most Important Supreme Court Case of the Century?

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I’m rested and ready Bari and mentioned 0 times in the Epstein files!

But it’s going to be a looonnnng speech?! Who could pass that up?

what a clown show

Why did the Vatican decline to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza? Declining to join the Board of Peace, Vatican officials might point out that true peace can only be achieved through justice and reconciliation, avoiding the peace of the graveyard. How else to descri...

As the Middle East point man for the Trump administration, Jared Kushner has great expectations for another unprecedented real estate deal. This one in Gaza. All of Gaza.

Why did the Vatican decline to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Trump’s Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than Iraq Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.

Remarkably, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social,Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The view from my window…

No sign of Tonya and Sasha at Varykino. Heading to Yuriatin and … Lara

Why did the Vatican decline to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza? Declining to join the Board of Peace, Vatican officials might point out that true peace can only be achieved through justice and reconciliation, avoiding the peace of the graveyard. How else to descri...

Why did the Vatican decline to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Will Mamdani's experiment in universal child care pay off? - U.S. Catholic Universal childcare may not be cheap, but it is a vital investment in families' well-being, and the future our children will inherit.

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My family is cursed with thick hair! It’s not my fault!