Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on tax policy with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

G.O.P. tax bill appears to roll back restrictions on Johnson Amendment

by Michael J. O’Loughlin November 2, 2017

In its tax overhaul, GOP includes a repeal of a rule that limits the political speech of churches in exchange for tax-exemption.

Features, Politics & Society

Meet these Catholics who voted for Trump and love Pope Francis

by Jim McDermott November 2, 2017

The voters I spoke with were not single-issue voters, and they showed a comfort with, even insistence on, complexity around a range of issues that are part of our national conversation.

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Of Many Things, Politics & Society

How to encounter Latino Catholics in America (and why you need to)

by J.D. Long García November 2, 2017

The nation has changed, once again. This time we are becoming more Latino. The demographic shift is not the future; it is the present.

Sgt. Donald Young places a U.S. flag over the casket of Sgt. La David Johnson during his burial service in Hollywood, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. Mourners remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

Editorials, Politics & Society

The Editors: Patriotism loses its meaning when it is used as a political weapon

by The Editors November 2, 2017

There is nothing patriotic about a disregard for facts.

A jail cell in a Federal Penitentiary in Texas. (CNS photo/Jenevieve Robbins, Texas Dept of Criminal Justice handout via Reuters)

Editorials, Politics & Society

The bail system punishes the poor—here are some more just alternatives.

by The Editors November 2, 2017

It costs more to be poor in the United States.

Politics & Society, Your Take

Have you gotten involved in local politics since the last presidential election?

by Our readers November 2, 2017

As the first anniversary of the 2016 presidential election nears, America asked readers about their engagement with politics on the local level. Ninety-eight percent of our reader sample told us that they intended to vote in upcoming local elections—though voter turnout in municipal elections in major cities rarely comes close to 50 percent. “Democracy begins […]

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Dispatches, Faith

U.S. bishops consultant on doctrine resigns after criticizing Pope Francis

by Kevin Clarke November 1, 2017

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops responded quickly after the letter became public.

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago speaks to local media in February 2009. The case of former priest Daniel McCormack represented a significant breakdown of the child protection policies he had approved for the archdiocese. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)

Dispatches, Faith

Chicago archdiocese wins claim against false sex abuse allegations

by Michael J. O’Loughlin November 1, 2017

Church officials in Chicago say that revelations regarding other fraudulent cases could be forthcoming, a prospect that both the archdiocese and victim advocates say will be a disservice to genuine victims.