NCR Today: When the U.S. bishops meet Nov. 11-14 in Baltimore, people expect them to discuss the pastoral priorities facing the church in the United States.

NCR Today: The archdiocese of Detroit is polling its parishioners, but the effort is unrelated to the Vatican questionnaire for next year's synod on the family.

Young Voices: Our obligation to engage serious art isn't precisely to evangelize or to make newcomers more comfortable. The obligation is for us.

Grace on the Margins: The latest incarnation of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , which protects LGBT workers from discrimination, is up for a vote today.

NCR Today: Trying to figure out this synod on the family; Detroit polling its Catholics, active and lapsed. News from Canada, Australia and Peoria.

Just Catholic: The Vatican's preparatory document for the synod on the family gets to women after 300 words. Among matters of concern are "forms of feminism hostile to the Church."

NCR Today: With synod on family, Francis may have gotten the mess he advocates. Plus, a national call for clemency.

On the Road to Peace: In the Company of the Poor includes writings from perhaps the world's two greatest Christian lifelong advocates for the poor and marginalized.