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The U.S. military must make clear to Trump: Invading Greenland would be a war crime.
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1208+ words) The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the commanding general of Northern Command may soon have to make the most important decision of their careers: whether to obey an order from their commander in chief to invade Greenland....
Archbishop Broglio: It is ‘morally acceptable’ for troops to disobey ‘morally questionable’ orders on Greenland
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (300+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " The head of the U.S. military archdiocese said in a Jan. 18 radio interview that U.S. soldiers could in good conscience disobey orders to participate in an invasion of Greenland. In an interview on the BBC's "Sunday" program, Archbishop Broglio…...
Stretching for (spiritual) flexibility
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (513+ words) Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship....
Ahead of March for Life, pro-life movement faces key political challenges
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (603+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "As the pro-life movement prepares for the53rd annual March for Life, their cause faces a number of key issues such as preserving the Hyde Amendment, the recent approval of a new generic abortion drug and a rising abortion…...
Cardinals urge Trump to step back from threats on Greenland and Venezuela
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (802+ words) In their statement, the cardinals said they embraced Pope Leo's vision "for the establishment of a genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation." The cardinals proposed U.S. foreign policy "that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and…...
When our religious and social structures can’t contain the power of the Gospel
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (448+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of "finding God in all things" and…...
Martin Luther King, a Baptist, lived Catholic social justice in ‘extraordinary fashion,’ Cardinal Gregory says
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1074+ words) (OSV News) " Last year Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American to participate in a papal conclave, which eventually elected Pope Leo XIV. While there have been African cardinals from the earliest days of the Church, Cardinal Gregory is the…...
I accompany migrants in court. Their stories haunt me.
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (311+ words) I am a lawyer, but I do not appear in immigration court in that capacity. Rather I go as someone to accompany and walk with people in what is a terrifying moment in their lives. I am there to bear…...
Inviting my curious friends to Mass
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (247+ words) A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot Jesus's invitation to Levi is plain. Levi's acceptance is simple." This past summer I had the pleasure of listening in as Noah Banasiewicz, S.J., told his vocation story during the opening session…...
How Vatican diplomats tried to resolve the Trump-Maduro standoff
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (762+ words) American Catholics may have been surprised to learn through a report in The Washington Post of the significant involvement of Vatican diplomats in negotiations to resolve the standoff between the Trump administration and the Maduro government in Venezuela. Veteran Vatican…...