Newly appointed Bishop of San DiegoRobert McElroy on Pope Francis' vision for the Catholic Church.

After 13 years committed to war, it is time to be alarmed.

The United States has reached a new chapter in its intervention in the Middle East, as the enormous obstacles to achieving peace are being recognized more clearly with every passing day. We have lost our way in Iraq—strategically, militarily and morally—and we need to forge a pathway for

John Courtney Murray is the most significant Catholic theologian the church in the United States has ever produced.

Now that the turbulence surrounding the 2004 presidential election has abated, it is critical to revisit a question that deeply divided both the Catholic bishops and the Catholic laity during the heated months of summer: Should Catholic public officials who endorse the continued legalization of abor