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Democrats won the House and Senate, and Trump is already talking vetoes. What the Church teaches about civil friendship when power is divided.
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Deacon Dan DeLuca
A permanent deacon, ordained in 2023, completing a Master’s degree in theology and preparing to begin doctoral studies. His areas of study are Scripture, liturgy, and ecclesiology. Everything here is written by him — nothing syndicated, nothing reprinted from a publisher’s service — and every claim is cited to the document it comes from, by paragraph number.