The Martha's Vineyard Catholic church is at risk for having no permanent priest, possibly needing to consolidate three church buildings into one and cutting Masses to three a month, according to a long-term planning document prepared for the parish.

Danubia Campos dreams big. A law degree, or maybe one in international relations. Possibly a career with the United Nations or even one as a Supreme Court Justice.

The greatest thing about the Vineyard for the Rev. Alden Besse is not the natural beauty - as much as he appreciates it - but the intimacy of the Island community.

As a longtime minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven, and someone who is involved in numerous nonprofit organizations, he believes that people on the Vineyard have always taken care of one another.

Dr. Sheldon Hackney can't remember a time when he wasn't on the liberal side of America's culture wars. He still struggles to explain how it came to be that way.

He was born 72 years ago and raised in Birmingham, Ala., in a "completely conventional, conservative" Southern family.