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Pondering the war on Iran

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Marcus Peter March 8, 2026 12
A recent appeal from Pope Leo XIV urged patient diplomacy amid rising tensions between Western powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. His words reflected the Church’s perennial instinct toward peace. Through long decades of [...]
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Instrumentality in Sin and Silicon

Christopher M. Reilly March 4, 2026 9
The use and proliferation of artificial intelligence technology (AI) can generate vice and, ultimately, sin. Not always, for AI is a fascinating product of human creativity that promises many practical benefits as well as harmful [...]
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Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics

James Kalb March 2, 2026 73
Effectively, open borders are a bad idea. That’s true whether they result from explicit policy or from failure to enforce the law effectively. The population of the world outside the United States is about 8 [...]

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