One of the legitimate complaints about Pope Francis is that he talks a good game, but has actually done almost nothing in his two-and-a-half... Read More

Pope Francis is coming to Washington, DC on September 22nd, and nearly everyone in the nation’s capital is freaking out about his visit. Scores... Read More

Last week, I pointed out how the Laudato Si’ environmental encyclical dismisses population growth as an underlying cause of environmental degradation while scorning technology... Read More

Despite my quite biased view, I show more respect for Pope Francis than a lot of liberal politicians and other talking heads who’ve fallen... Read More

One day I’ll wake up and the liberal love fest with Pope Francis will be over—but until that day comes, I want to make... Read More

As someone who has long called for humanists and mainstream religionists to work together, I naturally welcome Pope Francis’s call for action on climate... Read More

Pope Francis is a public relations genius. From eschewing the gilded ornamentation utilized by his predecessor, to living outside the papal apartments, to talking... Read More

Public figures as diverse as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and John Gotti have all been called “Teflon men,” because nothing sticks to them. They... Read More

The charming thing about the conservative sense of fairness is its flexibility. For conservative Catholics, the pope is the absolute and infallible head of... Read More

Everyone loves Pope Francis, TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2013. That’s due in part to the heroic efforts of his PR guy,... Read More