Magazines like America are not really the first draft of history. But from time to time, when the publishing planets align, we break news as well as analyze it.

That woman is in so many parishes, right there beneath the exit sign and almost out the door, singing while the roof gets ripped off and the sky falls.

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.

Catholic social thought has much to teach us about how to balance our commitment to the common good with contemporary economic practices and structures.

"To define a whole category of people, or a whole nation, or a whole religious group as being in some way more prone to terrorism than any other group is irresponsible."

Even when events are messy and motives are questionable and hardships abound, we must trust that God’s unknowable power is at work.