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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on April 28, 2026.

eNewsletter Subject: Peacemaking, and other woes

On Monday, Fr. Jerry Pokorsky wrote Blessed Are the Peacemakers. It is an excellent reminder of the issues we must keep in mind before we engage in war. It is also a reminder about who is in charge of the clear principles, and who must deal with the murky facts.

Thomas Mirus has just added a new installment to his series on the Lives of the Popes. This one covers the period from 257 to 296 AD. Available in one place in both written and podcast form: The Little Peace of the Church, when imperial persecution was suspended.

Jumping to a period roughly a hundred years later, I highlight the teaching and advice of a great fourth-century saint who served in the new capital of the Roman Empire, or New Rome, that is, Constantinople: St. John Chrysostom on the power of Christ’s blood.

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