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Reflections, essays, and dispatches from the Catholic Paradigm.
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Collapse This Regime: The One Purpose A Sanction Is Allowed To Have
At 12:01 on Friday morning, a document nobody outside the shipping and insurance business had ever heard of quietly stopped working. General License X was the Treasury Department’s permission slip letting Iranian oil move legally for 60 days while the…
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Humble Yourself And Be Crowned
Jesus says all of this standing inside the temple. That detail carries the whole passage. The men he indicts had spent their…
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Nine Hours In The Basement: Who Owes A Shield To The People Of Kyiv
Outside a collapsed apartment block in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district on Thursday, an elderly woman stood over her grandson’s body while rescuers set…
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Dry Bones Cannot Love
Ask a hundred Catholics what God wants from them, and most of them will get the answer right. Love God. Love your…
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Nineteen Years And No Vaccine: What The Church Says About Medicine The Poor Cannot Buy
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said something Tuesday that should have been the headline. Speaking to WHO’s Emergency Committee about the epidemic now killing…
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Wear The Garment You Were Given
Today’s Gospel splits most of us right down the middle. The first half we love. The invited guests refuse, so the king…
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Everyone Is A Supplier Now: What The Church Says When A War Runs Out Of Civilians
The Russian embassy in London published a statement on Monday calling Britain an “accomplice and co-perpetrator” of Ukraine’s attacks and warning that…
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The Shepherd Who Pays Too Much
Most of us keep a ledger without admitting it. We tally the years we have gone to Mass, the sins we resisted,…
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No Time Schedule: What The Church Says When A War Stops Being An Emergency
Two sentences from Monday belong next to each other. The first is what the United States and Iran signed on June 18:…
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Jesus Christ Is All My Riches
Nobody you know says out loud, “I am a god.” But plenty of us do the arithmetic that means it. We calculate…