Being comfortable receiving and processing information faster unfortunately does not correlate with our ability to assess that information for truth, much less for wisdom.

“What does the midwife tell us to do? Breathe. And then? Push.... Tonight we will breathe. Tomorrow we will labor in love through love, and your revolutionary love is the magic we will show our children.”

Instinct, emotion, intuition—all those elements that make politics, well, politics—still matter.

There is a big elephant in the room: What does Mr. Trump know about Russia? What does he not know? Does he know what he doesn’t know?

We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.

This is the new America, a fresh approach to the smart, Catholic take on faith and culture that has been our hallmark since 1909.