Trainor suggested the bishops avoid political matters because they, like many faith-based groups that offer social services, receive funds from the federal government. He described the arrangement as "almost a payoff" by the government.

As rural America becomes more diverse, it faces many of the problems associated with big cities, writes Nathan Beacom. The urban-rural divide in our politics does not reflect reality.

Khyati Y. Joshi's new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege."

Readers of the daily email newsletter rank the issues important to them in the upcoming election.

Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.

A conversation with NPR’s Scott Detrow and the hosts of Jesuitical.