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JD Vance’s ambition has led him to the vice presidency, and his Augustinian restless heart has led him to the Catholic Church.
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** PETER J. LEITHART
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Like so many of our cultural values and aspirations, transhumanism perverts an originally Christian hope.
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Pope Leo’s migration theology complicates efforts to paint the Holy See as a hotbed of open-borders do-goodery, even as it leaves unanswered crucial questions.
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