Zoll covered religion in all its aspects, from the spiritual to the political, and her stories reached a global audience.

Journalism gets attention when it breaks big stories about institutions like Enron and the Catholic Church. But they can only do that work if they are consistently read — and broadly trusted.

The divisions in our country are deep on issues like racism and economic inequality, as well as on education, cultural values and lifestyles. Likewise, our church is divided. What are communicators to do in the face of these divisions?

An outsider in parochial Boston not beholden to ties of kin and culture, Mr. Baron greenlighted an expensive and difficult investigation. 

"I am the pastor of people who are suffering," Pope Francis said.

Father Matt Malone’s homily for the Feast of St. Edmund Campion, patron of America Media.