Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who specializes in international law and conflict resolution, argues that “February 28, 2026, will forever mark the day that the United States began a war on Iran that will be compared with the disastrous March 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
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U.S. bishops support lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship
The U.S. bishops and a Catholic immigration advocacy group were among those who offered their support to a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs, but relief for poorer Americans uncertain
Tyler Schipper, an associate professor of economics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, called the ruling a good check on the president’s use of tariff power.
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Vatican will not join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Cardinal Parolin says
The Holy See “will not participate” in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said Feb. 17, citing “points that leave us somewhat perplexed.”
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High-ranking Catholic bishops call for Trump to apologize over racist video of Obamas
Two more Catholic bishops issued statements objecting to a video posted on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account late at night Feb. 5 that depicted former first couple President Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
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Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission sparks tense exchange over antisemitism and Israel
Commissioner Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California USA and a Catholic, began a tense exchange with witnesses by asking if “speaking out about what many Americans view as a genocide in Gaza should be treated as antisemitic?”
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Archbishop Broglio: It is ‘morally acceptable’ for troops to disobey ‘morally questionable’ orders on Greenland
The head of the U.S. military archdiocese said that U.S. soldiers could in good conscience disobey orders to participate in an invasion of Greenland.
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Ahead of March for Life, pro-life movement faces key political challenges
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, its previous precedent that viewed abortion as a constitutional right, the abortion rate in the U.S. has increased rather than decreased, despite bans in some states.
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Trump meets with US bishops’ president at White House
The week before Trump’s meeting with Archbishop Coakley, the U.S. president told House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies.
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Pro-life groups push back after Trump tells House GOP to be ‘flexible’ on taxpayer-funded abortions
After President Trump told House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies, a key national pro-life group argued the policy should be “a minimum standard in the Republican Party.”