Michael Sean Winters: A look at the difficult-to-fathom decision by some very conservative Republicans to pick a fight with Disney; a high school junior's essay is a study in true liberal values.
A review of how President Trump has fared in the Mideast is mixed at best as even the relative successes are short-term and are attached to a long-term cost to American interests.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: An odd America editorial; meeting parallel to the pope in Dublin; Democrats' and Republicans' misperceptions of each other.
Despite high-level interchurch closeness between pope and patriarch, on the local level "the Catholic Church still faces great challenges merely building bridges with Russian society."
Redemptorist Fr. Charles Vijay Kumar's upcoming documentary, "Who Is My Neighbor?", shows the human faces of worldwide migration and asks for a Christian response.
After Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, ended his official trip to Russia, there are signs that not everyone is satisfied with the tone of the four-day visit or confident about its benefits for Catholics.
