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Debadrita Sur graduated with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, where she reported on housing and homelessness, and co-produced a short documentary on food insecurity in the South Bronx, New York. She has bylines in The Buffalo News, Mirror US, Daily Express US, The New York Times, and Far Out Magazine UK, where she has covered breaking news and enterprise stories on local, national and international topics. She is originally from Kolkata, India.
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David Carroll Cochran is professor of politics at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. His most recent book is The Catholic Case Against War: A Brief Guide, published in 2024 by the University of Notre Dame Press.
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V.J. Tarantino is co-founder of Sacred Beauty, a private association of the faithful in the Diocese of Bridgeport. She has studied ancient and Medieval metaphysics and has devoted her adult life to the service of liturgy and to immersion in the writings of the doctors of the church and of recent popes. Her writing can be found on Substack at Questions, Disputed and Otherwise.
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