Pope Francis has been managing church-state relations well since Javier Milei’s election, while the church hierarchy in Argentina has kept a cautious and skeptical distance from the country’s new leader.

Bishop Gumbleton became a national religious figure in the 1960s when he was urged by activist priests to oppose the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. He was a founding leader of Pax Christi USA, an American Catholic peace movement.

We don’t know the names of all of the men so far, but the Guatemalan, Honduran and Mexican consulates have acknowledged that citizens of their nations working together in the United States are among the missing and the presumed dead.

A conversation with Cardinal Wilton Gregory on synodality, the dangers of social media and the role of young people in overcoming divisions in our church and country.

An idealist—like Jesus or Jefferson Smith—can be dangerous because he refuses to accept the compromises that form the foundation of their power.

Do the divisions of politics occupy our focus more than the unity of Christ’s kingdom? This would be a great tragedy for all those who hear and make their own Christ’s desire that all be one.