The real problem is not the offering of prayers in the face of tragedy but the interpretation of what prayer entails.

The voters I spoke with were not single-issue voters, and they showed a comfort with, even insistence on, complexity around a range of issues that are part of our national conversation.

Upward of 3,000 buildings have been destroyed just in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 people.

The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is a warning that Hollywood cannot try to minimize or downplay the actions of Harvey Weinstein.

“Celebrating Columbus Day does not honor their story and their struggle and their history; it insults it.”

It is not only Anaheim, but Southern California as a whole that finds itself in the midst of a homelessness emergency.

“Our vision is growth. We’re the largest archdiocese in the country, largest Catholic school system in the country, and we still feel like we’re underserving our population."

The thing you hear again and again about Diana is that like Pope Francis, she “saw” the people around her.

Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.

How do you continue to “bear witness” when every three or four days there is another crisis?