For President Trump, there are obvious, common-sense answers to all the problems that plague America. Even when things may be challenging or require effort, they are never, ever complicated.

Americans can learn much about citizenship from Jimmy Carter's public service and humble faith.

A proposed assisted-suicide law in Britain does not serve compassion. Instead it presents an illusion of final autonomy.

This election highlights the deep divisions in American society. But perhaps the strange working of mercy and providence is evident even there, keeping us attentive to the need for conversion and reconciliation.

I have admittedly rolled my eyes at the language the Vatican uses around the Synod on Synodality. But it should prompt all Catholics to ask themselves: Do I know what I am really trying to say?

When public servants when they show us a glimpse of something that points the way toward “more perfect union,” we ought to pay close and grateful attention.