Dadaab voices: What’s behind the rise in refugee suicides? A pressure cooker existence of prolonged displacement, slashed aid, and fading futures is driving a spike in suicides.

Dadaab voices: What’s behind the rise in refugee suicides? : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

US Killed Children in Iran Using New Missile That Scatters Pellets Explosively The PrSM detonates just before contact with its target, exploding into a spray of tungsten pellets.

US Killed Children in Iran Using New Missile That Scatters Pellets Explosively truthout.org/articles/us-...

What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

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Markets Watchdog Rolls Over Amid Iran Insider Trading Allegations The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is supposed to oversee prediction markets, where traders are cashing in on Donald Trump's Iran announcements.

Admin insiders are brazen, as if they’re confident they will never face scrutiny. We should be anxious about their fearlessness in blunt corruption like this.

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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in...

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Amazon delivery driver Hall of Fame?

I'm guessing the senior pickleball tournament big shots!

On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in...

“No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God,” Romero said. “No one has to observe an immoral law…I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression.”

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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Óscar Romero Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in...

“We seek a foreign policy that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world.”

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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Óscar Romero Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in...

“No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God,” Romero said. “No one has to observe an immoral law. It is time now for you to reclaim your conscience and to obey your conscience rather than the command to sin.”

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On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Óscar Romero Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in...

More than four decades later, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States.

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As war with Iran escalates, has the U.S. measured the cost? The cost of war is great, and its deadly ramifications can last for generations, even after the conflict has subsided.

In the short term, a war of choice like this attack on Iran can prove unpredictable. The long-term ramifications of conflict are even harder to discern. If quagmires were easy to foresee, they would be easy to avoid.

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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

Unbelievable

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c... via @NYTimes

Death Comes For the Archbishop: The Martyrdom of Óscar Romero If for a second Óscar Romero had glanced through the open doors of the chapel, would he have seen the young man taking aim? Would he have been afraid? Would he have been tempted to flee?

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The Biblical Witness of Oscar Romero Kevin Clarke, author of "Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out," reflects on how the archbishop's ministry was grounded in the Beatitudes.

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What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

As usual in armed conflict, it is the region’s civilian population that is paying the highest price.

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What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

The human suffering of this latest conflict is not limited to Tehran, Tel Aviv or sites hit by Iranian missiles. Crossings into Gaza were shuttered by Israeli officials when the bombing began, cutting off humanitarian aid.

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My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil discourse. Catholics, we cannot participate in this: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026

What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

As usual in armed conflict, it is the region’s civilian population that is paying the highest price.

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The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church On issue after issue, the U.S. government has contradicted recent Catholic teaching—and not subtly, but by flaunting its acts of opposition.

Thank you for your attention to this matter ...

@ntnsndr.in in America magazine

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What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

Dropping bombs on an enemy may provide a visceral satisfaction to some political leaders, but “that won’t bring real peace,” Father Corrou says. Today’s violence, he argues, only lays the groundwork for more violence in the future.

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What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

The human suffering of this latest conflict is not limited to Tehran, Tel Aviv or sites hit by missiles in Iraq and the Gulf states. Crossings into Gaza were shuttered, cutting off humanitarian aid to the survivors of more than two years of conflict.
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What the Middle East needs: Not more bombs, but ‘hard, focused diplomacy’ Lebanon stands to become the hardest-hit collateral casualty of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. After years of economic turmoil, ineffectual governance, refugee crises and a devastating port explosion, ...

Israel has occupied southern Lebanon in the past. “It always…ended in a quagmire for them,” Father Corrou says. One of those quagmires, in 1982, led directly to the emergence of Hezbollah as a significant fighting force. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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Catholicism in Ireland has been declining for decades. Are young people coming back? After years of bad news and declining numbers, is Catholic Ireland experiencing a revival—particularly among young men?

A church postmortem may not be imminently required. “The Turning Tide?” finds that Ireland remains among the most religious societies in Europe and there are new indications that young people are being drawn to the faith.

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Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?

I think that horse has left the barn and driven off in a stolen Ferrari

Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

St. Patrick's Bad Analogies YouTube video by LutheranSatire

It’s that time of year again…

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Archbishop Warda on Iran war: A refuge for Christians in Iraq is now under threat A painful irony today is that Erbil—once a refuge for displaced Christian families—has become one of the Iraqi cities most frequently exposed to missile and drone attacks as war between U.S.-Israel an...

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Drone attack on the Blessed Michael McGivney Apartment complex in Ankawa, a predominantly Christian suburb of Erbil, March 4

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Archbishop Warda on Iran war: A refuge for Christians in Iraq is now under threat A painful irony today is that Erbil—once a refuge for displaced Christian families—has become one of the Iraqi cities most frequently exposed to missile and drone attacks as war between U.S.-Israel an...

The Middle East is not simply a stage for geopolitical struggles. It is the homeland of peoples and communities that have lived here for centuries. Christians in this region simply seek to live their faith and serve their societies in peace and dignity.
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