Diversity brings opportunity, but leaky roofs and aging priests bring challenges to American parishes.

80 percent of poll respondents agreed that not enough was done in their parishes to address the ongoing political upheaval.

Mr. Torres's relentless years of ministering to gang members, drug addicts and the incarcerated is beginning to be recognized.

The U.S. bishops have published statements condemning three executive orders in President Trump's first week.

Cardinal Dolan: "We come together this sacred evening in a church we claim as a sanctuary...to reclaim the belief that a mother's womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby must be safe, secure, nurtured and protected."

Cardinal Tobin: "Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts.... Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities."