If the church is a field hospital, I have known a place within the church where the wounded have flocked for many decades. I am speaking, of course, of Howard Gray.

The conflict between Mr. Ryan’s libertarianism and his Catholicism rests on rival anthropologies.

Patrick Conroy, S.J., the chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives has sent a letter to Mr. Ryan withdrawing his resignation

Representative Walter B. Jones of North Carolina said the decision “was made behind closed doors based upon the input of only a few.”

Representative Mark Walker of North Carolina said he wanted Father Conroy’s successor to be somebody with children.

A human rights attorney in the United States believes that the upcoming canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero in October has been a factor in a decision to revisit the 1989 Jesuit massacre at the University of Central America.