I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”

He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the movement.

Upholding the authority of the law to restrain the chief executive is a core Christian value.

"The administration's efforts to effectively end asylum have been met with a massive outpouring of opposition from the public, particularly the interfaith community," said the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.

In Indiana, the second federal execution in three days was carried out when Wesley Purkey was strapped to a gurney and injected with lethal chemicals as he expressed words of regret for what he had done.

A Notre Dame study on Americans' attitude toward abortion reveal some interesting aspects of the controversy that has roiled American society for decades.