In the fall of 2021, America Media’s video team hatched an idea: What would it look like if we traveled to four parishes across the United States during the course of one year and assessed their similarities and differences? Here is a snapshot of what we found.

The movement for natural burial is growing and is slowly becoming more mainstream in the United States, but the practice is as old and widespread as our species.

On July 31, the Paulists celebrated their last Mass at the Ohio State University. The anger and disappointment expressed by some points to challenging questions about the role of campus ministry centers.

Many faith-based organizations are among those working to provide assistance. Returning to Afghanistan is simply not an option.

While Catholic employers still have a long way to go in figuring out sustainable maternity leave policies, most are missing another easily implemented opportunity to support women and families more generally: offering part-time, flexible jobs.

For the last decade we have tried to help counter the effects of ideological partisanship by breaking down the echo chambers it relies on; to host a different kind of discourse, a forum for a diversity of viewpoints.