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The challenge of finding families for homeless youth and for those in group shelters is creating the latest flashpoint over competing civil rights claims. (iStock/bodnarchuk)
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Catholic Social Services refuses to place foster children in homes headed by same-sex couples; the city of Philadelphia says this policy violates a nondiscrimination law.
Young attendees at last year's Religious Education Congress in Anaheim. (CNS photo/Victor Aleman, Angelus News)
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
Composer John Flaherty has been overseeing renewal and experimentation at the R.E.C.’s worship services for almost three decades.
The question of whether students at Catholic high schools should be cut off from programs that benefit other students is being debated in Vermont and across the nation. (Images: iStock, Wikimedia Commons; Composite: America)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
While the vast majority of Vermont students are eligible for the vouchers, which pay the full cost of up to two college classes, students who attend religious and other private schools are not.
Worshippers hold candles at the beginning of the Easter Vigil at St. Louis de Montfort Church in Sound Beach, N.Y., in April 2017. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
Easter is second only to Christmas in Mass attendance—and in a tight race with Halloween in candy consumption.
 03.05.2018 Pope Francis greets people during an audience with Italian nurses in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 3. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of U.S. Catholics hold a “favorable” view of Pope Francis.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Paul Stinson
The divergence in Texas might be viewed as a microcosm of the national debate over what it means to be pro-life.