One tip: Keep partisan politics out of the parish bulletin and the parish website.

We do not simply submit because someone must rule. Having been given some say, we must strive to speak according to what we think Christ would have us say.

"My policy preferences are irrelevant," she said when asked if she had intended to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and she reiterated this same view when asked about abortion and same-sex marriage.

In a press statement released on Oct. 8, the diocese said that the decision to restrict attendance at Mass to as few as 10 people in the worst-affected zip codes is a violation of the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.

As a reporter, it is my job to follow along as individuals and communities try to figure out who they want to be and how they want to live.

A perennial social crisis affecting many other issues, Pope Francis has called for a poor church for the poor. What does poverty in America look like in 2020? And will the political parties finally tackle the issue plaguing tens of millions of Americans?