"From the Pulpit" is a weekly column of faith, shared by Central Illinois faith leaders. This week: "And who is my neighbor?" ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Cynicism is naive,” Yuval Levin says. “The fact is that people want to be idealistic, want to be part of something bigger than themselves, to contribute to something that they can respect and be proud ...