An Oklahoma man charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest wrote letters to a newspaper railing against the Catholic Church reforms of Vatican II and referring to a “strange new version of ‘Catholicism.’”
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Catholic Relief Services responds to Myanmar earthquake disaster
“Hospitals are overwhelmed, and people are sleeping out on the streets, anywhere they can, in fields and playgrounds and religious compounds.”
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Catholic Relief Services carries on after Elon Musk’s takedown of USAID
Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.
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JD Vance, Ukraine and the nihilism of MAGA
There is a cynical strain of MAGA, a mirror of the deconstructivism of the left, which jeers at woke hypocrisy but is not for much of anything—certainly not anything requiring faith or sacrifice.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
How Trump’s deportations are testing the boundaries of presidential authority
“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before…and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”
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Europe was a world leader in A.I. regulation. Will Trump change that?
E.U. regulations on artificial intelligence may not be global in scope, but they affect 450 million consumers and companies will have to implement E.U. rules and adopt them for other territories for cost-saving reasons.
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Cardinal McElroy installed as eighth archbishop of Washington
During the nearly two-hour liturgy, Cardinal McElroy encouraged the faithful of his new archdiocese to be “pilgrims of hope in a wounded world.”
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Trump’s war on DEI reaches Georgetown Law
Edward Martin, interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said he would refuse to hire Georgetown Law graduates unless the school eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Are Dreamers the next targets in Trump’s immigration crackdown?
Diminishing public support, along with the Trump administration’s intense focus on immigration, has left DACA recipients uncertain about their future.
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Podcast: Living out Catholic social teaching in Trump’s America
On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Kim Daniels, the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, about Trump’s clashes with the Catholic Church.