As only the second Catholic president, Joe Biden can renew communication and collaboration with church leaders, writes J. Kevin Appleby. But only if mutual respect prevails.

Young people did not lose a trust we once had in the clergy; many of us never had that trust in the first place.

Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced Friday (Nov. 13) to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia.

As a layperson, and as a father, I cannot continue to make myself dependent on ordained men. Not for this.

The church has come forth with a substantial public report that admits failure and injustice.

The failures detailed in the McCarrick report are not just tragic accidents but the predictable outcome of the incentives and attitudes that have shaped the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.