Given the number of those in the California legal system today who are Latino, “you can guess a large percentage of them are Catholic.”

The new cardinals named by Pope Francis come from El Salvador, Laos, Mali, Spain and Sweden.

Illinois is one of about 35 states that have “revenge laws” that prohibit anyone from publicly disseminating intimate or embarrassing content about others without their consent.

More and more, the political campaigns are indistinguishable from advertising campaigns for, say, breakfast cereals.

The women of the Redbird Writers Guild shared a common belief that writing with faithful trust can lead to transformation—their own and ultimately that of their readers.

Despite shifting views among average Catholics, advocates for L.G.B.T. people say the church can still feel unwelcoming. Church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” has not changed.