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.”

"What is a woman religious? If we can come to some clarity as to what a woman religious is in the life of a church, then we can understand the relationships of women religious to the church."

“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.”

“I think you could compare it to a hostile takeover,” says reporter, author, and Vatican observer David Gibson. Might the Leadership Conference of Women Religious simply disband and reorganize on its own?

Catholic Cubans have strong lay networks, says Catholic News Service staff writer Patricia Zapor, but they still need and want "a little bit more of everything—more freedom, more services, more priests."