The pope’s aim is to establish a whole new way of being church.

Republicans offered passion while Democrats showed skittishness in the 90s.

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Place of PrivilegeRe “Breathing Space,” by Alex Mikulich (10/26): Thank you for this very powerful article. As an African-American woman who has taught in Jesuit schools for 14 years, I appreciate Mr. Mikulich’s acknowledgment of white privilege in Jesuit institutions. Many Jesuit

Voters may be contributing to the gridlock and dysfunction they routinely complain about.

National politics are polarized along both partisan and racial lines, making it difficult to assemble a broad coalition to do anything.

Francis demonstrates how to share Catholic moral principles in ways that invite and persuade rather than alienate and push people away.

Ron Murphy, S. J., a Georgetown University German professor, was returning from the Catholic University of America, where Pope Francis had celebrated the canonization of St. Junípero Serra, when a woman approached him. “Father, Father,” she exclaimed, “this pope is wonderful. This

Francis, the first pope ever to address the United States Congress, provoked sustained applause by his very first words, expressing his gratitude for the invitation to address this joint session of Congress in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”Many veteran politicians, inc

Like today’s cable news anchor, politicians are not talking to most of us, but to the relatively few of us they need in order to win.