𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉.

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Funerals held for students and staff after Iran school strike Iranian authorities say they were killed in a US-Israeli strike in the city of Minab on Saturday.

A school shooting with even 1 innocent victim is tragic & horrific.

A school BOMBING with 150+ innocent victims is beyond conventional moral characterisation.

Nobody held accountable.
Not Trump.
Not Netanyahu.
Not Hegseth.
Nobody.

May God’s justice have final word. 🙏
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To the extent that the Church (at all levels) functions as an ACTUAL community, most/all current challenges can & will be resolved - including women's role in the community's life & leadership.

To the extent that 'Church as community' is merely notional, these issues will remain unresolved.

Synodality Study Group 5 - Final Report on 'The participation of women in the life and leadership of the Church': www.synod.va/content/dam/...

I must confess to finding it disappointing. I'd have liked to see a greater emphasis on Church as COMMUNITY. The notably muted reaction doesn't surprise me.

Currently re-reading:

Your Christian government at work.

#Iran etc.

The European 'ego conquiro' [I conquer] preceded the Other-annihilating 'ego cogito'. From 1492, it migrated across the Atlantic.
E. Dussel: "Before the ego cogito there
is an ego conquiro ... The center has imposed itself on the periphery for more than five centuries".

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B'Tselem

Hopefully, U.S. voters will get out there and do something in November's midterm elections ... before it's too late!

Cardinals McElroy and Cupich denounce Iran war: ‘War now has become a spectator sport.’ “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game—it’s sickening,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said.

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment,” he wrote, “as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store.”

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Deportations surge, aid collapses and faith groups in Latin America struggle to respond "There simply isn’t enough capacity even for the local community. It's much harder with a population that has been abandoned in places that are extremely difficult," said Karen Perez, the country dire...

"People arrive with nothing — no money, no way to move and no network to help them," said Karen Pérez, country director of Jesuit Refugee Service Mexico, or JRS-MX.

In interview, Cardinal McElroy says U.S. entry into war with Iran ‘not morally legitimate,’ citing Catholic just war teaching - Catholic Standard

From the Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal McElroy, today: www.cathstan.org/us-world/in-...

Daniel Berrigan, S.J. & companions
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York
July 25, 1973

Why lessons from a CIA coup in Iran should haunt Trump The story of modern Iran begins with a CIA coup in 1953 - and its lessons should haunt Donald Trump, writes Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

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Catherine Connolly criticises ‘violations of international law’ in Middle East President does not condemn US or Israel directly, but comments appear to be a implicit rebuke to Government’s response to campaign against Iran

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Bitter break-up for Trump and Starmer - but polling suggests PM on side of public opinion It's been a long time since Sir Keir Starmer has found himself so firmly on the side of public opinion.

"For many in the Labour Party - and beyond - Blair is the very last person who should be giving advice on following American presidents into wars in the Middle East. His criticism of Starmer is therefore something of a godsend for the current PM"

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Middle East conflict is 'assault on international law' President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly

As a barrister, she recognises the potentially catastrophic consequences of Trump's loudy proclaimed contempt for international law.

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Tony Blair Slams Keir Starmer For Not Backing Trump's War On Iran The former PM said the UK should have stood by its "indispensable ally".

Starmer's refusal to be bullied into joining an illegal, immoral, murderous crusade in the Middle East is to be commended.

Standing up to Trump - however timidly - is to Starmer's credit.

Blair, complicit in killing 100,000+ innocent Iraqis, is utterly shameless.
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Tony Blair Slams Keir Starmer For Not Backing Trump's War On Iran The former PM said the UK should have stood by its "indispensable ally".

Starmer's refusal to be bullied into joining an illegal, immoral, murderous crusade in the Middle East is to be commended.

Standing up to Trump - however timidly - is to Starmer's credit.

Blair, complicit in killing 100,000+ innocent Iraqis, is utterly shameless.
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What the hell is going on in Iran? The Jesuit Institute South Africa hosted a dialogue between Fr David Neuhaus SJ and Fr Chris Clohessy asking 'What the hell is going on in Iran?'

What the hell is going on in #Iran? I've put a transcript and the recording here in case anyone missed it... sj.mcharlesworth.fr/posts/2026-0...

The Mad King’s War Trump’s war in Iran violates the Constitution, international law, and just-war principles. It has no clear objectives and no exit strategy.

Mad indeed!
Yet neither the U.S. Senate nor House of Representatives is willing to rein him in. Other potentially authoritative voices - including U.N. and religious leadership - are barely heard. May God help the world!

www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...

The Mad King’s War Trump’s war in Iran violates the Constitution, international law, and just-war principles. It has no clear objectives and no exit strategy.

Mad indeed!
Yet neither the U.S. Senate nor House of Representatives is willing to rein him in. Other potentially authoritative voices - including U.N. and religious leadership - are barely heard. May God help the world!

www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’ President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

Trump makes no effort to disguise his contempt for international law. Referencing "my own morality" seems like a sick joke.
This is the obscenity now confronting fragile democratic institutions, both international & within the United States.
Much prayer needed! 🙏
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