Baltimore is not the first Catholic diocese in the United States to allow weddings outside of churches, but it is still very rare.

House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.

Cesareo wrote that this "apparent complacency" could indicate that some in the church think "sexual abuse of minors by the clergy is now an historic event of the past."

The shooting shocked communities still in recovery from Hurricane Harvey, the parish itself having recently renovated after seeing Harvey's floodwater fill the sanctuary.

The settlement is the largest ever reached in a bankruptcy case related to clergy sex abuse.

Among both listeners and staff, one can find those who were born and raised in the United States or moved here at a young age and those who are new to the country; those who have papers and those who do not or whose parents do not.