From 2000: “Since R.C.I.A.’s reinstitution, the Catholic Church in the United States each year has drawn more new members than any other religious group in the nation.”

The achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II were possible precisely because he inherited a living church, not one frozen in time.

The pages of America have lately been filled with articles on the question of liturgical translations. Bishop Donald W. Trautman, former chairman of the N.C.C.B Committee on Liturgy, and Cardinal Jorge A. Medina, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, have

Mother Katharine Drexel founded schools nationwide, including Xavier University, and a religious order to serve people of color.