The United States has removed itself from another international dialogue aimed at tackling a complex international challenge—migration.

The presidential proclamations would cut the monument by 85 percent.

The goal is not to make sure everyone is safe and secure. It is to enable a few people to do really, really well.

“What we need to do is just continue to live out the challenge of ‘Laudato Si’,’ which is to examine our relationship with the earth, with God and with each other to see how we can become better stewards of this gift of the earth.”

Three plays invite us to look back on the decade that launched Trump as a time of churning ambivalence and upheaval.

Much of the business appears to be routine, though the bishops as a body have been vocal in recent months about a range of political and social issues, as well as internal church politics, that are sure to come up during the meeting.