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Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare,
the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said
“the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world”
has been thrown into question by a resurgence in the use or threat of military force,
including in Venezuela and Greenland.

The archbishops,
Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago,

Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”

The Sony catalog from 1989/1990 has HUNDRED AND FIFTY PAGES of the most amazing audio and video equipment you've ever seen.
Today everything is a small black rectangle.
Sad.
https://archive.org/details/sony-gesamtkatalog-1989-90/page/n1/mode/2up

Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/method-cyber-ai-venture-a16z

Exclusive: Cyber specialist Method Security raises $26 million
"America has a cyber resilience problem," CEO Sam Jones told Axios.

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Conservative Military Archbishop Says Catholic Troops Can Defy Trump Orders on Greenland (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/conservative-military-archbishop?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p132#a260120p132

"Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the church's work with the U.S. military and also chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed concern that service members might face "morally questionable" directives."
Archbishop says it would be ‘morally acceptable’ for troops to disobey orders | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/military-greenland-trump-orders-archbishop-b2904377.html

There have been few regularly recurring disappointments in my teaching career quite like realizing yet again that an otherwise good student can't figure out how to make it all the way through the process of finding a book in the university library catalogue, locating a physical copy on the shelf, and, finally, checking it out.

Catholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland,
according to the bishop responsible for their pastoral care.
The Archbishop of the Military Services #Timothy #Broglio said personnel
“could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to…

Broglio: US personnel could disobey ‘immoral’ orders against Greenland - The Tablet
Catholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland, according to the bishop responsible for their

Split Sixth Circuit revives Catholic charity's challenge to Michigan conversion therapy ban | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/split-sixth-circuit-revives-catholic-charitys-challenge-to-michigan-conversion-therapy-ban/

We have learnt to look at the world through ratings, reviews, and whether a place is “Instagrammable.”
Nuance is pressed flat into a system of stars.
Even mountains and valleys are scored on Google Maps,
while countless unassuming places slip silently through the net.
I often wonder, ruefully, how much we are missing when only the ranked and the rated rise to the surface.
It begins to feel as though such systems are not merely cataloguing the world,
bu…

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For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.