The health of U.S. democracy demands attention to its electoral mechanics. Both candidates and voters should prioritize improving elections.

Lay Catholics are ready to lend their expertise, leadership and prayers to heal the wounds inflicted on children and the church by abusers and the leaders who failed to stop them.

Protracted and opaque processes only reinforce the fear that the church is still more invested in protecting itself than in protecting those who suffer from abuse, the editors write.

America strives to understand and highlight the experiences of those on the margins.

Above all, Mr. Trump’s action is dangerous because it is based on fear.

Today more and more women religious are speaking up and demanding that the church hold abusers to account.