Politics

By Eduardo Berdejo, EWTN News - The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, called for finding peaceful solutions to the events unfolding in Iran, where he sees the population’s yearning to live in “peace, justice, and dignity.”... On Dec. 28, 2025, protests erupted in the capital, Tehran, as Iranians demonstrated against rising prices of basic goods such as chicken and cooking oil, due to inflation. In the following days, the demonstrations spread to more than 180 cities... These protests are considered the most severe that the Islamic Republic has faced since it came to power in 1979.

By Jack Rigert, Crisis Magazine - In The City of God, Augustine defends rulers who protect their people, arguing that legitimate authority restrains chaos and shields the innocent (XIX.17). A society that abandons self-defense does not become more charitable; it becomes more fragile, inviting disorder that ultimately harms the weak most of all. Hospitality that corrodes order does not elevate mercy—it undermines it... St. Thomas Aquinas sharpens this insight with characteristic precision... Prudence, Aquinas teaches, is right reason applied to action—the virtue that governs how universal principles such as charity and justice are embodied in concrete circumstances ....