As early as 1994, while McCarrick was archbishop of Newark, a woman expressed concerns about McCarrick to the papal nuncio in Washington, Agostino Cacciavillan.

As the crisis of climate change attains more urgency, many more people—especially the young—are coming to protest how humans are treating the planet to the detriment of all the living.

by making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.

Rome for me is a heady place where it’s easy to lose your spiritual bearings.

At the end of this election year, a time for silence seems sorely needed.

I had a lot to learn in order to pass for a Roman Catholic.