Pope Leo XIV got into a wee spat with the $434 billion man, Elon Musk, this week, to the extent that Mr. Musk was forced to resort to Scripture.
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Trump’s deadly strike on a drug-trafficking boat sets a dangerous example
The notion of targeted killings “was never lawful,” even when it was aimed exclusively at terrorism suspects, and it is thoroughly unlawful “when it’s aimed at drug trafficking suspects.”
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Why is Israel targeting journalists in Gaza?
In the midst of the horror show that is Gaza, the targeting and assassination of journalists in Gaza remains worth calling out.
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The Trump administration’s friendly neighborhood military takeover of Washington
If you head to Washington seeking evidence of the city’s military takeover, you are very likely to come away disappointed.
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Be like Pope Leo: Take all your vacation days—without guilt
By getting out of Rome for vacation at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo sets a good example, especially for us Americans.
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Vatican workers now get 5 days of paid paternity leave. That’s 5 more than U.S. dads.
Alone among its international peers, the United States has no national mandate for paid maternity or paternity leave.
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‘Lives hanging by a thread’: Looking at hunger and starvation in Gaza
Observers around the world have grown weary of the images of starving children and desperate people gunned down while trying to collect bags of flour or boxes of food.
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Now is the time for the Trump administration to help Syria. Will it?
A brief opening to shore up progress toward stability in Syria unfortunately coincides with Trump administration decisions to sharply curtail humanitarian and development assistance and to terminate the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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A Palestinian Christian community is the latest target of settler violence in the West Bank
On July 7, settlers carried out a daytime arson attack on the Church of St. George and a Byzantine Christian cemetery. The fifth-century church is “one of the oldest and most venerated places of worship for Christians in Palestine.”
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Trump closing U.S.A.I.D. could cost an estimated 14 million lives by 2030
The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.