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A Debt Still Owed: What the Church Asks After Looters Ransack France’s Cities
Looters ransacked shops and burned a city hall during French cost-of-living protests. What the Church teaches about goods meant for all, and what is owed.
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Deacon Dan DeLuca
A permanent deacon, ordained in 2023, completing a Master’s degree in theology and preparing to begin doctoral studies. His areas of study are Scripture, liturgy, and ecclesiology. Everything here is written by him — nothing syndicated, nothing reprinted from a publisher’s service — and every claim is cited to the document it comes from, by paragraph number.