‘To encourage private enterprises to decrease their dependence on U.S. currency, financial systems, trade, and technology, European leaders would have to offer alternatives that are equally convenient, cost-efficient, and technologically advanced as those provided by the U.S. Currently, such options do not exist’

‘Trump has propagated a series of inaccuracies concerning the conflict. He has asserted that the U.S. has “eliminated 100 percent of Iran’s military capacity”, while Tehran persists in causing harm across the region. Furthermore, he has stated that the war is nearing its conclusion, even as he requests additional troops from various parts of the world.’

‘In light of the aspiration for digital immortality or a body enhanced by cybernetics, the Church reminds us that fragility and suffering are not flaws to be eradicated, but rather fundamental aspects of our existence that connect us to God.’

‘It has now been three weeks since the U.S.–Israeli conflict with Iran commenced, aiming ultimately to dismantle its theocratic regime. Although it is undeniable that Iran has incurred significant losses, including the assassination of its Supreme Leader and other high-ranking officials, its illegitimate government seems to remain stable.’

‘In 1976, Pope Paul VI suspended the archbishop, forbidding him from performing his episcopal duties. Despite this, Lefebvre not only persisted in his apostolate but also established regional headquarters in various nations for Catholics disillusioned by the leftist infiltration of the Church, who sought to practice their faith as it had been taught by the Church of Rome for nearly two millennia.’

‘In Hungary, from 1772 to 1825, the Enlightenment played a crucial role in shaping Hungarian identity and produced a small group of distinguished writers who promoted self-determination from Habsburg rule.’

‘In the longer term, an Iran that is preoccupied with its own severe domestic problems—trying to avoid elite fragmentation and consolidate new leadership, or even move toward a more consultative system with less clerical influence and more power sharing—will lack the energy and resources to meddle in the region.’

‘The fact that the Church is telling us to hear, as opposed to properly guide, those who have a same-sex orientation or claim that God created them inside the wrong body, thereby having the full right to surgically alter it, has become an endorsement of an ideology that also preys on minors.’

Less known than Nazi persecution itself is the role of the Jewish Councils established under German occupation. In Bereft of Council, historian László Bernát Veszprémy offers a rigorous, source-driven account of Jewish leadership in wartime Hungary, confronting uncomfortable questions of responsibility, survival, and post-war reckoning without speculation or revisionism.

‘Truth be told, it is not in America’s national interest to start a war with Iran.’