Morning Briefing

"Prisons aren't for kids, and that's what this ruling says in a nutshell." -- Jonathan Ryan, executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services, on a tentative ruling by a federal judge against restrictive detention facilities for immigrant families.

Catholics long involved in social justice issues have a different view of Baltimore's troubles. From Vinnie Rotondaro: Looking beyond race to classism.

A webathon plea to global readers: Keep NCR's news and views coming your way! Support us today!

Editorial: Bishop Robert Finn's resignation "a bitter but necessary reckoning for leaders of the Catholic church."

Pope Francis to youth at a parish outside of Rome: Expect to fall, just keep getting up.

Opinion: A Middle Eastern House of Cards. The roots of today's chaos.

Global Sisters Report: Women religious begin to turn efforts to earthquake relief in Nepal

Mater Dei Institute: 50 years of preparing women religious for leadership in Asia, Africa.