The St. Thomas Boys Choir’s sweet voices resonated like angels in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany. I listened in awe. I couldn’t understand the words in German, but the boys’ pure, wholesome tones ...

Moral clarity rarely emerges from comfort. It comes from the willingness to name what is wrong, even when doing so risks alienating congregants, donors, or political allies.

Long before a mall nearly surrounded St. Joseph Catholic Church, the downtown parish was strategically built on the eastern edge of town near a booming residential district of German immigrants. But ...