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Love Won Out founder says “I have made many mistakes and I have hurt many people.”

Amid the clamor to figure out who Pope Francis might be, observers never failed to mention that he is the first Jesuit pope. But what does that really tell us and, more importantly, as his decisions begin to come down the pipeline, what is most important to know about his Jesuit worldview?

We saw it after Sandy Hook and Kermit Gosnell, and it’ll probably crop up in discussions of Boston.

So far as I can tell, nothing in our language or in our collective practice, digital or otherwise, holds space for such moments of spiritual pause, however secularized that spirituality might be.

Court says conservatives can’t take historic property with them when they leave.

A discussion of Kathryn Joyce’s new book.

“No compromise” gun group takes credit.

Or just endless tenure in a job that doesn’t require an IQ test.

The notion that the news media is a secularist cabal ignoring stories that challenge its shibboleths is wrongheaded. The media is not sentient and its decisions are not logical. It reacts more than acts, often driven by random factors (What did my husband say over breakfast? Who’s trending on Twitter? When was the last time I read a story about ____?). Equally mistaken is the premise that if there were more believers in the nation’s newsrooms things would be different.

No one has yet stepped out of the shadows to claim credit for the horrific bomb attacks on the Boston marathon Monday that killed three and seriously injured over a hundred. But rumors abound.