After four years of a president who rejected American leadership and alliance building, it is comforting to have a president who engages the world again, and does so with America's best national dispositions on full display.
A non-profit that stands against all forms of aggressive violence hosted a event with an unorthodox range of programming that explicitly invoked Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's "seamless garment" articulation of a consistent ethic of life.
Commentary: The anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of two Japanese cities is a time of remembering the horror, repenting the sin and reclaiming a future without nuclear weapons.
Distinctly Catholic: As we prepare to celebrate the nation's birthday, the idea of America is being contested on terrain we thought was in our past, with the resurgence of a racially tinged understanding of the American nation.
We say: Trump's desire to see tanks and missiles paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue raises the question of what vision he has for America. He misunderstands what has made America great.