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So, us, along with all of you witnessed, we took military action against Iran, the United States in Operation Midnight Hammer, targeted three Iranian nuclear facilities. President Trump addressed

the nation Saturday. I was watching that live. I've done my best to really gather as much as we know here,

as much as the administration has told us. If you're looking for a podcast that's going to be

championing war, rah-rah, you know, booting their ass type stuff, it's not going to be here.

This is a very somber

event for me personally, but we do want to give a good analysis of what we know now. Square that

with Catholic social teaching, what Pope Leo is saying about it, what Catholics in the administration

are saying about it. And then gets to some good news. Pope Leo had a great Corpus Christi

recession over the weekend to really bring us up a little bit.

So this is going to be a little bit of a somber episode.

Hopefully we want to provide a good service to you, all Loebcast listeners here.

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