How a state with just 3 percent Catholics shaped the first U.S.-born martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church

Death by lynching and death by crucifixion are atrocities of the worst order. But such killings say different things about the societies in which they are committed.

The question comes down to this: Are you really pro-life? Do you reverence all lives—the check-out clerk as much as the unborn child?

Jesus called his followers to be fishers of men. We can understand this better if we consider what it takes to be a fisher of fish.

With some guidance from St. Ignatius of Loyola.

From Meatless Mondays to Black Lives Matter, old Christian truths take hold in a world that seems to have left religion behind.