It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”

Somehow, I feel like my parents no longer understand me, and I no longer understand them.

Helping drive up Mr. Trump's numbers, some Catholics say, were clergy and parish leaders.

Having one Latino parish diocesan ministry is not enough.

Maybe our nostalgia for “better days” is simply a case of buyer’s remorse.

A majority of Catholics—52 percent—voted for Mr. Trump.