John D.S. Allen: “Ending incessant federal interference will free up state and local leaders to foster more opportunities.”

To embrace this Franciscan spirit as his first decision I think sends a very clear symbol that in terms of returning the church to the sort of core sense of what it's all about, this is a reform.

There's no clear front runner for the papacy. The last thing these 115 cardinals who are going to cast votes want is to go into the Sistine chapel and become deadlocked and have to stay there for three or four days.

I`ve never seen anything like it, Brian. The alacrity with which the Democratic Party joined behind Joe Biden after he won South Carolina is something that we`ve never seen before.

The security of Jordan is extraordinarily important to the United States and to the region.