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Counterprotesters hold signs and chant at the Statehouse before a planned "Free Speech" rally by conservative organizers begin on the adjacent Boston Common, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“For too long, the sin of racism has lived and thrived in our communities and even in some of our churches.”
FaithNews
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
To say that Hispanics in the diocese take pride in their newly appointed bishop is an understatement.
White nationalists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11 over a plan to remove the statue of a Confederate general from a city park (CNS photo/Alejandro Alvarez, News2Share via Reuters). 
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A second statement from the U.S. bishops read: “We stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
The Vatican has appointed an apostolic visitor to investigate claims by Indonesian priests that their bishop had a mistress and misappropriated church funds.
An issue of the Italian journal La Civiltà Cattolica (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
William Murphy
Bishop William Murphy calls for more nuance in discussing "the proper kind of religious influence in the secular sphere."
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Bishop Ruiz preached “evangelization by the poor,” instructed his priests to study local indigenous languages and trained hundreds of catechists and deacons.