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A water main break in January 2015 snarls streets in Lower Manhattan. iStock photo.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
America Staff
U.S. municipal water and wastewater systems are buckling after decades of neglect.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sister Haddad, the president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association, wonders why any fair observer should be surprised to discover that Catholic institutions would adhere to Catholic teaching on abortion and contraception.
A man with a trucker hat helps move a tree into a pickup truck
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Christopher Parker
Four years later, Father Nixon and the St. Dominic’s community are still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Michael.
a pregnant woman stands behind a cash register counter that has a sign reading closed in front of it
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jill Rice
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has yet to pass in the Senate, even though it has broad support from Democrats, Republicans, the USCCB and even the Chamber of Commerce.
in ten photos, Archbishop Timothy Broglio; Archbishop Paul Coakley; Bishop Frank Caggiano; Bishop Michael Burbidge; Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone; Archbishop Paul Etienne;  Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller; Bishop Daniel Flores; Archbishop William Lori; and Bishop Kevin Rhoades
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this November to elect a new president, it will be the first time in several decades that the race is wide open.
A man walks past a Marian mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. 20, 2013. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were brought up Catholic, compared with 43.5% identifying as Protestants, the first time in more than a century that Catholics outnumber Protestants. (CNS photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Just below those top-line figures on religious affiliation, significant changes in national identity also become clear—29 percent of the Northern Irish population now see themselves exclusively as Irish. This is just three points behind the 32 percent who consider themselves British.