By guest blogger Nick Mele, a parishioner of the Church of the Assumption in Bellingham, Washington who blogged about a pilgrimage for comprehensive immigration reform that he took last summer. Like other "Catholic workers" featured in the February issue of U.S. Catholic, Mele found a creative way to address an issue that he is passionate about.

By Anna Weaver, author of Through a glass darkly: How Catholics struggle with mental illness. This is the first of U.S. Catholic's guest blog posts. We have asked our writers to provide some insights they've gleaned from reporting on a particular subject for us.