“I don’t think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.”

Seeking solidarity by joining in a Muslim tradition

An arbitrary line in the sand does nothing to achieve real moral balance.

The "dissent channel cable" expresses clear frustration with America's inability to halt a civil war that has killed perhaps a half-million people.

Forty-nine young lives cut down in Orlando in a collection of minutes. How even to fathom that; how to fix it?

“A large majority of sacramental marriages are null. They say 'yes, for my whole life,' but they do not know what they are saying.”

Did the pope say a majority of marriages are null?

How do we live Calvary while never doubting Easter?

"Finding Dory” might be a more interesting movie than “Nemo” without being any better.

"This is our country, we had a civilization here for a thousand years and we are still citizens of this country," he added. "We cannot be marginalized."

Senseless gun violence came to a British town only days after the horrific attack on L G B T people in Orlando Fla U K Member of Parliament Jo Cox was brutally murdered in the street of Birstall the tidy little West Yorkshire town which she represented She had been seen as one of the brightest

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said "the whole of the Labour Party and Labour family—and indeed the whole country—will be in shock at the horrific murder of Jo Cox today."

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, applauded recent progress made around the world to end the AIDS epidemic and warned against complacency on efforts to end the disease.He made the comments in a statement to the United Nations' high level meet

Church leaders who decide not to attend, he said, bear responsibility for reneging on their commitment to realizing "this vision held over many years, which all our churches cherish, to declare and proclaim the unity of our Orthodox Church."

Akyra Murray, who just recently graduated from West Catholic Preparatory High School, was the youngest victim of the Orlando nightclub shooting June 12.According to news reports, Murray's family went to Orlando to celebrate her graduation, and she and her cousin and friend decided to go dancing

With a compromise on the gun issue still improbable, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor for most of Wednesday and into Thursday.

On Sunday 49 people were gunned down by a single armed individual. How can we tolerate that?

There is a valid Christian commentary to be made on the Brexit debate. But it seems at times muted, almost inaudible.

Reviewing Firmin DeBrabander's "Do Guns Make us Free?"