John D.S. Allen: “Those magnificent troops are sacrificing every day. Many of them are sacrificing their lives.”

I think he's utterly revitalized the political and diplomatic relevance of the Vatican in our tie, which seemed to be at the low end not so long ago.

I agree with getting the big fish and everything, but not when people are dying while we’re doing these investigations.

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

I think you have to ask the question why is he so fatigued? And I think at least part of that picture is that he has spent much of the last eight years frustrated that his efforts to be a teaching pope... have been hampered by a kind of…