The pope said on the plane back from Kazakhstan that it is sometimes morally licit for countries to purchase weapons for the purpose of self-defense.

The shock caused by a tragedy like the mass shooting in Uvalde, Tex., can change people’s hearts, dissolving apathy and stripping away callousness.

Sacred Heart Catholic School in Uvalde, Texas, will receive scholarship money for new students that transferred from Robb Elementary School.

Like gun violence, car-related violence is also a uniquely American problem.

It is right and just to feel anger at people like the Parkland shooter. What do we do with that anger, though?

Dante’s great insight in “Inferno” is that ultimately the only way out of hell is going through it, by confronting what we see there and what we feel.