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A new majority—even in Gaza—support compromise with Israel
Brazil's recent election highlights deep-rooted issues that persist beyond political change, suggesting that new leadership alone won't resolve the country's ongoing challenges.
It's still not clear what happened at Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning. Or why the five suspects arrested in connection with the incident were released on bail - a move even Donald Trump has criticised. But it is increasingly clear that Iran was involved. The News Agents sat down with the Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, for an exclusive interview about the growing threat posed by Iran on British soil, the rise of extremism and foreign-s...
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Can Catholic Voters Tip the Midterms? After decades of campaigns to convince Catholics that the GOP is the only party for religious voters, the 2024 election seemed to confirm that to be Catholic in the United States is to be Republican. No longer was the Catholic vote evenly split, with any slight advantage helping to determine the winner—a reality that had led E. J. Dionne Jr. to quip a quarter-century ago: “There is no ‘Catholic vote.’ And yet, it matters.” Instead, by 2024, white Catholic...
Clerics Without Clericalism Early in his papacy, Pope Francis was asked about a possible loophole in canon law that would allow women to be appointed to the College of Cardinals as laypeople. In his reply, Francis sidestepped the legal issues. Instead, he said, “Women in the Church must be valued, not ‘clericalized.’ Whoever thinks of women as cardinals suffers a bit from clericalism.” His reasoning was surprising. In his long-running critique of clericalism, Francis typically focused on cler...
The article highlights the alarming proximity of registered sex offenders to schools in San Francisco, raising concerns about safety and community awareness regarding this issue.
The pope has landed in Paris for a four-day trip. Received by President Emmanuel Macron, Leo warned about the risks of AI and criticized France's limited legalization of assisted dying
Carney declared the pipeline a project of national interest, smoothening its way to a single federal regulatory review