Heated rhetoric and divisive questions raise concerns about the fragility of democracy amid US-style politics.

Cook County will begin a three-year plan to demolish dozens of buildings at the Oak Forest Hospital site spead over 153 acres ...

A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

The country's Nazi-era racism persists, with Islamophobia normalised through laws and rhetoric that criminalise Muslims, and perpetuated by institutional complicity ...

In the American Catholic Laity Surveys that began in 1987, U.S. Catholics have, for quite some time now, preferred to decide for themselves on many questions of morality, over giving church leaders ...