By tempering his rhetoric on Ukraine, the pope is protecting his role as a peacemaker. He is also downplaying any conflict between Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

When talking about gun control policies, we must center our conversation around the sanctity of human life.

The maligning of this girl’s good name has to end. And, at least in our pages, it will end.

In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.

For decades, the United States has responded to homelessness with small change. It’s time to think big and treat housing as a human right.

I’ve often said that as a Catholic feminist covering the Vatican, I cannot wait until it is no longer newsworthy when women take on greater leadership roles in the church, but it is de rigeur.