Politics

By Carina Benton, OnePeterFive - President Trump once said in reference to the arithmetic-defying 2020 election results that “if you are a bank robber, or you’re a jewelry store robber, and you go into Tiffany’s and you steal their diamonds and get caught, you have to give the diamonds back.”... So it’s not surprising that after the exposure of the USAID as a publicly-funded money laundering operation, and last week’s revelations by the DOGE about some 4.7 trillion dollars in untraceable Treasury payments, taxpayers are starting to apply the same Trump logic to their own losses: when do they get their diamonds back? ...

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The appropriate hope for both (State and Church), I think, is that we might begin a period rooted far more firmly in the essences of what both State and Church are supposed to be. By this I mean it is time for the State to attempt to maximize the common good within its own borders, without either smothering its citizens under bureaucratic control or continuously undercutting them by looking for cheap profits throughout the world. And it is time for the Church to maximize opportunities for the spiritual good of her members without…well, without either smothering her “citizens” under bureaucratic control... or continuously diluting their faith by looking for cheap profits throughout the world ...