In what may prove to be confirmation of a national trend among part-time or adjunct faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, contingent faculty at Loyola University Chicago voted today to join Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union, becoming the third Chicago group of part-time

State officials report that all children who drank the city's water since April 2014 have been exposed to lead.

“I think people on both sides would say that it’s gone well,” he says. “By no means do [adjuncts] feel like they have reached a level of parity,” he adds, “but they understand that the university has taken a real step in the right direction and want to continue to work with the union.”

Faculty Forward reports “deep misgivings about the future of higher education” among respondents.

The bishops wrote, "Our organizations have first-hand knowledge that these actions have generated fear among immigrants and have made their communities more distrustful of law enforcement and vulnerable to misinformation, exploitation and fraud. We find such targeting of immigrant women and children—most of whom fled violence and persecution in their home countries—to be inhumane and a grave misuse of limited enforcement resources.”

In Guatemala the arrests of 18 former military officials on charges of human rights violations were detailed on Jan. 6.

Supporting the president’s “modest” proposals, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell wrote, they represent “first steps in correcting gun laws so weak that they are ludicrous.”

The president was most clearly moved when remembering the particularly horrific attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Ct., in December 2012.

Papal visits to Cuba-the United States, South America and Africa were number 1 on the top ten church stories of 2015.

Sandra Bland's traffic stop became part of a national dialogue on race and police use of force