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What a Refusal Is Worth: The Army, a Promotion List, and the Duty Not to Cooperate
The Army secretary’s resignation, read through Catholic social teaching: public office as stewardship, and the duty to refuse an order you judge…
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One Hundred Years: What Leo XIII Says About a Contract Between Unequal Parties
Trump’s 100-year Venezuela oil deal, weighed against Leo XIII and Paul VI on why consent between unequal parties doesn’t make a contract…
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Who Hands You the Ballot: Subsidiarity and a Postal Rule Seventy Days Out
A blocked federal mail-ballot rule, 70 days from the midterms, tested against subsidiarity: the task belongs to the smallest body able to…
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What Did Pope Leo Ask Governments to Do About AI?
Six asks in Magnifica Humanitas: accountability, independent oversight, data as a shared good, protection for minors, and limits on autonomous weapons.
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Twenty-Two in the Church Compound: Kenscoff and the Duty That Does Not Vanish with the State
Gunmen killed 47 in Kenscoff, Haiti, 22 inside a church. What Catholic social teaching says a state owes its people, and who…
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The Letter and the Spirit: Two Hundred Thousand Visas and a Right That Exists Only on Paper
The State Department plans the largest mass visa revocation in US history. What Catholic social teaching actually says about equity, balance, and…
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Even If It Does Not Contradict Civil Law: What a Room Should Cost When the City Is Burning
Nevada’s price-gouging law switched on with a signature. The Catechism and the Compendium ask a harder question about what a room should…
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No Investigation, No Expiration: What the Church Asks of the Stronger Neighbor
A 1930 statute requiring no investigation and no expiration now sets 50% tariffs on Canada. What Catholic social teaching asks of the…
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A Law with Names in It: The Church on the Rule of Law and the New Attorney General
The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general. A Catholic deacon on the Church teaching about rule of law, equal justice, and…
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The Coordinates Were Agreed in Three Capitals: Catholic Teaching on Who Belongs at the Table
Iran and Oman agreed the coordinates for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. A Catholic deacon on participation, the common good, and who…