Timothy Schmalz says his new sculpture, Mary, Untier of Knots, parallels the pope's actions during his visit to Canada: "looking directly at the church's historical problems" and trying to right them.
Perspective: Irma Hernandez says Our Lady of Guadalupe brought me to Guatemala 25 years ago, and I became known in San Antonio Aguas Calientes as the gringa "who came back."
The Field Hospital: Deacon and wife minister to migrant farmworker families; angels lift seniors' spirits; New York state dioceses cooperate to put Christmas focus on Jesus.