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If the People’s Republic of China did not directly invade Taiwan, there are flash points that could still bring China and the United States to the brink of armed conflict. Such events would probably emerge from a combination of:

maritime confrontations, escalation from gray-zone coercion, accidents or miscalculation, alliance obligations, and disputes over...

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Midway

84 years ago today, the naval forces of Imperial Japan and the United States engaged in the epic confrontation known as the Battle of Midway. In my earlier Asia-Pacific War series I did not cover the Battle of Midway, only mention...


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This coming Sunday is the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. With all that in mind (the previous posts) we come to the gospel passage for the feast.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forev...


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In today’s gospel, the Sadducees are testing Jesus by presenting a reductio ad absurdum argument based on levirate marriage. A woman is successively married to seven brothers. They ask: “At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be” – whi...


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Today the Church Universal celebrates the feast of St. Charles Lwanga and the Ugandan martyrs. Likely you do not know much about him and the 21 people that were martyred along with him. Today’s celebration of St. Charles Lwanga and Ugandan martyrs is a major feast and holiday in East Africa. And a reminder to us that this truly is a church universal – katholica.

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