Pope Leo XIV has been speaking forcefully and persistently against the United States’ military actions in Iran, addressing not just war in the abstract, but the specific actions of the Donald Trump administration. And now a report from The Free Press has revealed that in January, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned […]

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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.” In this sentence from 1 Corinthians, it sounds as if […]

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My dad and I communicate largely through rock ’n’ roll. It’s easier than direct conversation. In my early teens, I discovered the riches of his generation’s contribution to popular music, and we’ve had countless great discussions since. We’ve talked about the bonkers drum technique of the Who’s Keith Moon, the merits of the Beatles’ Sgt. […]

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In Orlando, Florida, in 2012, a wife and husband cultivated a healthy vegetable garden in their front yard. But the city of Orlando fined and prohibited them from doing so “because of the expectation that we live in a society where people will have nicely manicured lawns up front,” says Baylen Linnekin, a food lawyer […]

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The Catholic Church’s principles on immigration have their roots in scripture, tradition, and magisterial teaching. Both the Hebrew scriptures and Christian scriptures reiterate the moral obligation to “welcome the stranger.” This is perhaps most strongly worded in Matthew’s gospel, when Jesus says that whatever we do to the foreigner living among us, we do to […]

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