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Embrace Trump and single-issue abortion politics, ignore Pope Francis

Who is “America’s Largest Catholic Newspaper” really meant for—all the baptized in the archdiocese, or just the crankier white conservatives?

There is symmetry between what Francis said in his apostolic exhortation and his own public apology

“Winters in dark surf have given me / the silhouette of a wave rising / or just-spent, and the cold ocean / utters me like a whisper”

Tom Rachman’s wan comedy gestures toward a legacy worth having

In his apostolic exhortation Rejoice and Be Glad, Pope Francis warns against elevating any single social issue above all others

John’s writing was suffused with a deep and hard-earned Christian faith, but never an unquestioning one

Paul Ryan will step down from the House speakership as the personification of conservatism’s decline

David Pilling has a raucous bee in his bonnet over the statistical idiocies of GDP

Women are usually in the background of papal statements, if they appear at all. Not this time

We are torn between our priorities as consumers and our values as people

The call to holiness is universal, and it is incompatible with individualism, dogmatism, and sectarianism