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Just-War Case for Removing Venezuela’s Maduro Falls Short, Catholic Scholars Say

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A Father Found in Ireland: How a Young Archbishop Coakley Discovered His Vocation

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Catholic Church in Panama Calls for New Constitution

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President Trump Meets With Archbishop Coakley

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The Lions Come

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US bishops' president meets with President Trump, Vice President Vance (OSV News)

The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops met yesterday at the White House with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City “had the opportunity for introductory meetings with President Trump, Vice President Vance, and other Administration officials, in which they discussed areas of mutual concern, as well as areas for further dialogue,” the USCCB stated last evening.

“Archbishop Coakley is grateful for the engagement and looks forward to ongoing discussions,” the statement added.

To bless nationalism is blasphemy, Irish Primate says (Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference)

In his new year’s message to the people of Ireland, the Primate of All Ireland said that he is “saddened when I see people of faith online who seem ‘armed to the teeth,’ and who persist in ‘othering’ and accentuating difference.”

“It is particularly disappointing when you see this from Christians online who label and dismiss others because of their race, religion or some other perceived difference,” said Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh. “This is not of God.”

Archbishop Martin added that “unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to drag the language of faith into political battles, to bless nationalism, and to justify violence and armed struggle in the name of religion. Believers must actively refute, above all by the witness of their lives, these forms of blasphemy that profane the holy name of God.”