Readers whose parishes already engaged in outreach to Hispanics gave ideas for how to welcome this community better.

As a chaplain for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I find suicide is a pervasive part of my work.

In making decisions about what to eat, respondents to an informal survey told America that the most important factor was their own health.

Respondents who named health care as their priority for state elections frequently specified the issue: how universal health care would benefit everyone.

“The author seems to think he understands China better than we do.”

America also asked readers about whether or not they saw sports as a force for social good.

I am a former longtime Democrat of more than 30 years and very reluctantly registered as a Republican several years ago primarily because of the party’s support for laws to protect the innocent unborn from the violence of legal abortion.

This is an excellent editorial, bringing the findings of a well-constructed study into the social justice discussion.

Thirty-one percent of readers rated Pope Francis’ handling of sex abuse in the church as “somewhat positive,” while 30 percent of readers told us it was “somewhat negative.”

I am so glad that the views of Catholic women are finally being studied! We cannot move forward without understanding where we are.