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Benedictine College students, from left, Madeline Hays, Niki Wood, Ashley Lestone and Hannah Moore gather for evening prayers in a room which they converted to a chapel in the house they share Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Atchison, Kan. Across the U.S., the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press
Tue,04/30/24-11:07PM , 74 Reads
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening.
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Executive Senior Editor Steve Bonta, left, and former writer Daniel Natal, with the John Birch Society's New American magazine, film a live broadcast at the organization's headquarters in Appleton, Wis., Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. Back when the Cold War was looming and TV was still mostly in black and white, the Society was a powerful presence in American life. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory
By TIM SULLIVAN - AP National Writer
Sun,01/21/24-6:12AM , 242 Reads
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors.
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John Kraft sits next to his yawning cat, Tux, at his hilltop farmhouse in Clear Lake, Wis., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Kraft loves this place. He loves the quiet and the space but looks beyond his rural community and sees a country that many Americans wouldn't recognize. It's a dark place, dangerous, where democracy is under attack by a tyrannical government, few officials can be trusted and clans of neighbors might someday have to band together to protect one another. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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No longer the fringe: Small-town voters fear for America
By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press
Tue,11/29/22-11:10PM , 264 Reads
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A word -- “Hope” -- is stitched onto a throw pillow in the little hilltop farmhouse. Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls. In the kitchen, an envelope is decorated with a hand-drawn heart. “Happy Birthday, My Love,” it reads.
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A customer carries a box of baked goods from a bakery at sunrise in Benson, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. One little town. Three thousand people. Two starkly different realities. It's another measure of how America's divisions don't just play out on cable television. It has seeped into the American fabric, all the way to Benson, where two neighbors, each in his own well-kept, century-old home, can live in different worlds. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America
By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press
Thu,01/27/22-8:01AM , 459 Reads
BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western Minnesota.
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