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By Suellen Brewster, Catholic Exchange - For Catholics living in this “piecemeal World War III” learning the Church’s teachings on conflict between nations, especially the basics of Just War Theory, is incumbent upon us. Though our leaders would likely not explain it this way, the international actions being taken currently are in response to “structures of sin” in other nations, so an understanding of this Catholic idea is also helpful... Understanding these two foundational ideas will not make us experts, nor qualify us as advisors to those in authority. But they will help us navigate these turbulent waters as we pray for our military, our leaders, and every human soul involved.

By Thomas Colsy, The Europan Conservative - “Jesus became flesh in all human contexts,” he continued. “Therefore there is a right for all nations to continue with their special culture without contradiction to the others. It is a good image to say we are a family in mankind. But we are in a European family and so on.”... “We are against globalism. We are a universal Church. But a universal Church in the house of my father,” Müller clarified. “There are different habitations for everyone.”

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - When Notre Dame de Paris almost burned down in 2019, owing to a fire started (accidentally?) by workmen, the world was stunned by the near loss of one of the West’s iconic monuments – and a religious landmark at that. But churches around the world are burned or subjected to other types of attack these days, year after year, not by accident, but deliberate anti-Christian acts. Never heard of it? Thereby hangs a tale.