Readers whose parishes already engaged in outreach to Hispanics gave ideas for how to welcome this community better.

In making decisions about what to eat, respondents to an informal survey told America that the most important factor was their own health.

Respondents who named health care as their priority for state elections frequently specified the issue: how universal health care would benefit everyone.

“The author seems to think he understands China better than we do.”

I am a former longtime Democrat of more than 30 years and very reluctantly registered as a Republican several years ago primarily because of the party’s support for laws to protect the innocent unborn from the violence of legal abortion.

America also asked readers about whether or not they saw sports as a force for social good.