I am a firm believer in the power of place.

Charlie Brown is dead, but Bob Dylan is 75 years old today.

Vin Scully, Southern California's soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.

This is not the first tangle between popes and politicians.

From the moment Daniel Berrigan took the stage at Cornell University on April 17, 1970, he and everyone else there knew he would be arrested.

Anyone with a Twitter account could put out a virtual shingle as a church expert.

Let us avoid clericalism in all its forms, including casting those without Ph.D.s into the outer darkness.

But what can escape the outrage censors when everything is an outrage?

Can we do anything about climate change? L.A. might show us how we can.

Will El Salvador receive the graces of what almost all agree was a graced moment?