His campaign focused on defending traditional family values in the predominantly Catholic nation of 38 million people, and on preserving social spending policies.

The court is functioning less as a judicial body than as a relief valve for legislative dysfunction and executive overreach.

It is up to individual Catholics to make the case to church leaders.

The editors of America have weighed in on these cases in previous editorials, which offer some helpful perspective.

Outreach 2020, to be held at Fordham University, has been postponed until next year, but in the meantime organizers have produced a message of welcome for L.G.B.T. Catholics.

Immigrant youth are hoping that the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA will help efforts to strengthen it, thereby allowing them to continue living in the United States without fear of deportation.

I am a gay teacher in a Catholic high school. And I see hope in the Archdiocese of Seattle.

The short answer is: it is unlikely.

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As with the Obergefell decision, this ruling also affords the church an opportunity to reimagine its public witness.