Los Angeles ‘grew up around the automobile.’ Ready access to transportation was assumed.

“Today I, as the leader of this archdiocese, stand before you to say we have failed, in what we have done and what we have failed to do,” Archbishop Bernard Hebda said.

The decision to face the people rested on a profound theological insight.

The call of Daesh to members of Europe’s Muslim communities to kill as many “unfaithful” Western people as possible creates a new vista of possibilities for violent, frustrated men.

"I learned that people want to mend the gaps, that they really care about it, that they see the gaps differently," one sister said.

"I think the ministries that you do in music are so crucial in the trickling increment of grace and participation," Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo said.

"I've never seen the city like this before. I think it's the end of the world coming," one man said.

The U.N.H.C.R. hosted an international summit that explored possible solutions to the migrant crisis with the Organization of American States on July 6-7 in San José, Costa Rica.

‘We need laypeople with a vision of the future.’

Tighter Western security measures and immigration controls are two likely outcomes of a truck attack in France on July 14, but a closer appraisal of “crisis architecture” may be another response to the unprecedented attack.“I think that, sadly, we’re at a place where—no

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By doing justice to the “other half of the story,” we Christians honor our moral obligation to the Jewish people.

The great question is this: How do we form consciences?

The deaths of two African-American men last month at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, provoked soul-searching and demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism around the country. In a jolt to the entire nation, the killings

Msgr. Owen Campion of Nashville, Tenn., retired on June 30 after a long career in the Catholic press as an editor and associate publisher. • A few months after Donald J. Trump’s clash with Pope Francis over immigration policy, a new poll finds that most U.S. Catholics support Hillary Clin

Democrats for Life may have lost the battle, but they’re hoping to win the war, as they see the party’s future inextricably linked to how well it carves out room for individuals opposed to abortion.Democratic Party leaders meeting in Orlando, Fla., on July 10 advanced a draft of its 2016

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Witnesses testified against what they said is the U.S. government's lack of action regarding the use of violence by the Castro regime.

Today, more than half of U.S. millennial Catholics—ages 14 to 34—are Hispanic as are two-thirds of Catholics under 35 who attend church regularly.