Texas decision will embolden pro-choice lobbyists to target abortion restrictions in other states.
Summer conventions must maintain civility, but not squelch protests.
National service could prevent citizens from becoming abstractions to each other.
For most of the Muslims, it was the first time they had stepped inside a Christian church.
The plight and vulnerability of Lebanon, surrounded by the chaos of Syria on the north and east and threatened by the tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the south, were brought into sharp focus during a visit to the United States by Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Cathol
The pope’s call for Christians to offer an apology to gay and lesbian people, issued during his flight back to Rome from Armenia on June 26, was carefully welcomed by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. “I think it opens up a very helpful pathway to dialogue and, hopefully, healing,&rdqu