The pervasiveness of the internet has changed the game and made issues of free speech far more complex than they have ever been.

Where we choose to click and what we choose to read matters. Collecting these stories cost some people their lives. Why not honor that sacrifice?

“The problems with the Catholic press—and they are real—will not be served by circling the wagons.”

What our readers are saying.

The challenges facing Catholic journalists covering the church and the secular world are explored by America’s Matt Malone, S.J., and NBC’s Anne Thompson.

Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News, has stood for more than four decades as a prominent Catholic woman in the public.