Analysis and Comment
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Pope Leo doesn’t mess around
Vatican officials pushed back hard after Trump’s ambassador tried to frame the pope’s political criticism as merely secular.
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What would victory over Iran actually involve?
Ancient warnings about unchecked power and justice offer a sobering lens on today’s push for regime change.
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The vacuum where leaders should be
Politics and institutions are increasingly governed by risk management, not leadership. But real leadership requires imagination, courage and the willingness to challenge false stories. Of course, there are Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollahs, who run their worlds according to their own storyline. But none in any meaningful way serve democracies. But are…
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The poor don’t debate climate change — they survive it
The poor do not discuss climate change in conference halls. They encounter it at noon, under a tin roof, on a construction site, beside a dry hand pump, in a field where the soil has turned to powder, or in a flooded lane where schoolbooks float like dead birds. For them, climate change is not…
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Bastille Day values: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
The revolutionary triad may express convictions Christianity had long held about freedom, fairness and human kinship
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The whole stadium feels it first
A room that listens this way learns things about itself that a closed room never could have learned.
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Knowledge without borders belongs to everyone
True progress isn’t measured by innovation alone, but by whether AI serves people with no leverage, voice, or seat at the table.
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SSPX ordinations: 40 years on a second schism
The SSPX’s latest ordinations mark a deeper, more entrenched rejection of Vatican II than its original 1988 schism.
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When kneeling divides rather than unites
“Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” The title of the pastoral letter by Sydney’s Archbishop Anthony Fisher, taken from Psalm 95, already hints at its content: the cleric wants to promote the importance of kneeling once again in his archdiocese. The Innsbruck liturgical scholar Liborius Olaf Lumma studies bodily postures in the liturgy.…
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Two hours-plus online daily tied to teen mental illness
For girls aged 12-13 heavy daily use was tied to around 11 extra cases of high depressive symptoms per 100 adolescents.
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