In All Things

The presidential debates tell us a lot about the candidates’ personalities, but watch enough of them and you can also find some striking and unexpected statements about policy.

It was such a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t die from sitting down. I have often imagined dying from a lot of things, but sitting wasn’t one of them.

The Democrats should be talking less about a fabricated “war on women” and instead focusing on policies—such as paid maternity leave—that lift women up.

Political infighting of recent weeks have put “The People’s House” in a very bad light

Pope Francis said that Christians can’t be like Pontius Pilate and wash our hands of politics.

We Americans enjoy a beautiful heritage of religious freedom. Claiming that heritage today requires encounter and engagement between people who hold different viewpoints, so that we can grow to respect the right and duty of every person to live in accordance with her or his conscience.

Back in Rome, Francis faces a bigger test than U.S. trip

Courageous conscientious objectors whose claims are denied engage in civil disobedience and bear the consequences.

Joseph Koterski, S.J., on the good, the trendy and the worrisome in modern academia

A letter sent on behalf of the pope asked that Georgia’s parole board “commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy.”