In a wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis said he was “astounded” at disorder at the U.S. Capitol. He also said he would get the Covid-19 vaccine next week and that “everyone should be vaccinated.”

Trump supporters and the marginalized. Republicans and Democrats. Catholic leaders and myself. How do I hold them all together?

We expect too much from politics, more than it can or should provide. Only prayer can transform us.

Trump's supporters felt if they could get what they wanted, the rest would take care of itself. It doesn’t work that way. Ask Thomas More.

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The pro-life movement has a chance to move on from its alliance with Donald Trump, writes Xavier Bisits of Democrats for Life of America, and instead promote principled, consistent and compassionate leaders.

Every self-styled “patriot” who stormed the Capitol yesterday disgraced the legacy of American activists and soldiers.

It is worth remembering that occupying a legislature can be an act of democracy. We in the United States might need to do it again.

The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail — and their victories are emboldening religious liberals.

The white Trump supporters who desecrated the U.S. Capitol proved Rev. Warnock’s point. One cannot serve both God and whiteness.