National religion reporter David Gibson says a faith-versus-works debate is underway over the Colorado shooting. Does evil just happen, or can we repair the world?

"This is not just about the Vatican versus the nuns," says Sister Maureen Fiedler. "This really is about the future of how we interpret the message of the Second Vatican Council."

How close are US Catholic ties to the Vatican going to be in the future? “That’s a question that is definitely up for grabs in this particularly dispute.”

"What are legitimate changes...and what are changes that are really more driven by the secular culture and its values?"

What does it mean to be in the modern world? “Renewal and adaptation—that’s where all of the controversy comes.”

“One of the great gifts of Vatican II was that it sent us back to study what the Gospels were saying.”

“She had to have been the least naïve nun that I can think of,” says Kathryn Wat, curator of an exhibition of prints by graphic artist Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Individual liberty versus the common good and the ongoing need for comprehensive immigration reform are among the issues religious groups continued to debate as the High Court’s term came to a close.

A national debate is underway over the First Amendment, federal law, and whether “reasonable minds can disagree” about what religious freedom means. Watch excerpts from some recent interviews.

“What you are seeing is not quite a civil war, but kind of a civil skirmish within the US church about what it means to be Catholic.”