Jim McDermott

“Create in Me a Clean Heart” is in many respects a big step forward for the U.S. church.

Most clergy want to know if their style is not working, or if they could be doing something better. Could there be an app for that?

The state’s choice of language casts executions in a similarly reassuring,“it’s better this way” kind of light as assisted suicide.

“Spotlight” is a tale of a still ongoing calamity.

The broadcast networks are lucky to have two or three new shows make it to a second season.

Cardinal Turkson noted the pope’s concern that “the more that people live through their digital tools, the less they may learn ‘how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously.’”

Architect and Angeleno Frank Gehry has been consulting with the city on a proposal to turn the 52 miles that run alongside the Los Angeles River into a “linear Central Park.”

If you find yourself wondering, since when is the pope unable to call for a change in church doctrine, well, that’s a good question.

After all the effort put into consulting ordinary Catholics, I suspect many of us in the pews are wondering, “Did they listen? Do they ‘get it’”?