We Catholics ought to be at the forefront in establishing a better way for Americans to discuss matters of political significance.

We do not need the “warrior culture” of Pete Hegseth and others in the Trump circle. Instead, we need to develop a culture of encounter and belonging.

In 2017 speech to a conference of the World Meeting of Popular Movements, Cardinal McElroy, the newly appointed archbishop of Washington, gives a hint as to how he might approach the incoming Trump administration.

Canada. The true north, strong and…free? Not if President-elect Donald J. Trump has anything to say about it. And he does.

“If democracy is under threat from authoritarian urges, it is time to rediscover and reorganize our mutual obedience.”

Pope Francis today named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of Donald Trump’s second administration.