How Prayer Changes Politics

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a Catholic laywoman who serves as a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, the editor-at-large of National Review Online and a nationally syndicated columnist. She is also a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor’s Newsweekly and co-author with Austen Ivereigh of the 2015 book How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice. In January 2017, she made the full 30-day Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, later completing her certification to work as a spiritual director with the Cenacle of Our Lady of Divine Providence in Clearwater, Fla.