I admire the pope's ability to engage complex moral issues for the sake of a global church.

The liberal-conservative divide is not “who wants to help and who doesn’t care.”

John Breslin, S.J., was literary editor of 'America' from 1973-1978.

A place of beauty and dark history

California raises the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, assuring every full-time worker in the Golden State a minimum $30,000 annual salary by 2022.

The first time I was in Beijing for Holy Week I found it difficult to be in a different culture for some of my favorite liturgies of the year.