The Vatican stated Thursday that during “cordial discussions” this morning between Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio “the common commitment to cultivating good bilateral relations between the Holy See and the United States of America was renewed.”
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The Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act: Who rules when we give up on laws?
The Voting Rights Act and the War Powers Resolution have both been weakened by the erosion of previously established legal reforms.
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A defense of Pharisees—and a critique of Pete Hegseth
Mr. Hegseth’s remarks invoke an ancient anti-Jewish trope: the caricature of the first-century Pharisees as law-obsessed, murderous enemies of Jesus.
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Cardinal Cupich: What the Gospel demands in times of war
What does it mean, concretely, to be peacemakers?
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The demanding witness of Dan Berrigan in a world at war
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., died 10 years ago today. The state is no less war-ridden, no less bloodshot. Maybe more so. What are we to do?
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King Charles invokes faith, ‘shared values’ as he calls for peace in address to Congress
King Charles III appealed to the Christian faith and invoked “shared values” between the United Kingdom and the United States as he called for peace around the globe during an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress April 28.
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The poets, priests and politicians of Ireland’s Easter Rising, 110 years later
110 years after the Easter Rising, Ireland’s history and literature of resistance still inspire.
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Cardinal McElroy: Why the Catholic Church can and should judge the morality of the Iran war
The exclusion of the church from any substantive role in evaluating the moral legitimacy of decisions to go to war is a pathway to amoral decisions on war, not moral ones.
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What Pope Leo’s critics get wrong about Augustine and just war doctrine
The priority of peace fundamentally grounds Augustine’s just war theory. Pacifism is not incidental but essential to it.
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Asked about regime change in Iran, Pope Leo says, ‘I cannot be in favor of war.’
“The question is not whether there is regime change or no regime change; the question is how to promote the values in which we believe without the death of so many innocent people.”