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.

Iraqi sister testifies before Foreign Affairs Committee on plight of Middle East Christians

Mr. Bush was onto something: While government has a role to play in the pursuit of the common good, our charitable and voluntary associations are similarly indispensable, and those who have a religious worldview have historically led the way.

For 30 years as our most popular former president, Carter has functioned as the nation’s conscience, mainly because, like Pope Francis, he’s the real deal: a leader who says what he does and does what he says.

On my desk at America Media headquarters sits a sealed glass bowl containing some dark, hardened soil from the tract of land my family tilled for more than two centuries in County Galway, Ireland. This is unsurprising, I suppose. When I try to count back through my 13 predecessors as editor in chief

Statements that refer to “the bishops” often belie a diverse and complex reality.