For the Christian, hope is the virtue that lives where optimism claims to abide: trust in the assurance of God’s fidelity and the belief that we can participate in God’s faithful action in the world.

We should not be surprised when any notion of the church as a perfect society is not embraced by people who have real wounds and struggles.

Politicians may fear losing elections, but too many citizens seem to fear migrants and asylum seekers themselves.

The recent expansion of Arizona’s school voucher program will make it easier for Catholic schools there to fulfill their mission.

The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.

What is most needed in the public debate on abortion is an honest moral reckoning with the two goods that are in tension when a woman faces a pregnancy she feels she cannot continue.