Let us be precise about what happened. The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that classified American intelligence assessments show Iran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, roughly 75 percent of its mobile missile launchers, operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, […]
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On April 16, 2026, Sean Hannity announced on Fox News that he no longer considers himself a Catholic1. Twelve years of Catholic school. Seminary. Latin mass. Daily prayers. Gone. Not because of the decades of clergy sexual abuse that shattered tens of thousands of lives. Not because of the systematic cover-ups from the parish level […]
A war briefing is not a pulpit. The Pentagon is not a church. And Pete Hegseth is not a minister of anything except the art of humiliation — his own, the military’s, and now, apparently, the Lord’s. On Thursday, at what was supposed to be an update on the ongoing U.S. military campaign against Iran, […]
The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth, Apparently
The Pope told the world to choose peace.Donald Trump called him weak.This is where we are. Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, stood in St. Peter’s Basilica and delivered a prayer vigil against war. He denounced what he called a “delusion of omnipotence.” He called on […]
Let me begin with a confession that should not have to be made: I am relieved. Not proud. Not impressed. Not moved to any celebration. But I am relieved that a two-week pause exists where there was none — that the word “ceasefire,” however fragile, however dishonored by the men who negotiated it, has replaced […]
At 8:03 a.m. on Easter Sunday, the President of the United States posted a war threat on social media. He named a target. He named a day. He dropped profanity. He invoked Allah. He signed his name in all caps. This is the man with the nuclear codes. Donald Trump woke up this morning, while […]
On September 5, 2024, a voter at the Economic Club of New York asked Donald Trump what he planned to do about the cost of child care. He called it a “very important issue.” He said, specifically of daycare, “In this country, you have to have it.” Of course, he was running for president then. […]
There is a temptation, in times of war and outrage, to flatten the world into two categories: those who condemn evil and those who enable it. It is a tempting simplicity. It is also a lie. Let us be precise about Iran. Not careful. Precise. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic dictatorship. It […]
He started a war nobody asked for, and now he’s angry that nobody wants to finish it for him. Let that sink in. Roll it around. Hold it up to the light. A man who spent years telling NATO it was worthless, who stood before cameras and informed the alliance that American troops had carried […]
There is a sentence that should chill every citizen to the bone: A combat-unit commander allegedly told troops that the war with Iran is part of God’s plan, and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Armageddon. That is not strategy.That is not deterrence.That […]