“Priests and bishops get verbal abuse by being told, ‘How can you speak for women? You don’t know what it’s like!’”

“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”

The Vatican declined to confirm or deny the remarks in keeping with its policy not to comment on the pope's private conversations.

Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna calls Father James Martin’s book ‘Building a Bridge’ ‘useful for encouraging dialogue, as well as reciprocal knowledge and understanding.’

At issue is a long-standing practice of CSS not to perform evaluations of the homes of same-sex couples wishing to care for foster children.

Effective medical and public health interventions are necessary to solve diseases of despair.

The episode is the latest in a years-long struggle for Catholic colleges to balance support for diverse student populations while adhering to church teaching.

In recent years, thanks to shows like Shonda Rhimes' "Scandal," there has been a rise in shows featuring black women, both on and off the screen.

Twenty-five percent told us that one or more of their children had left the church.

There have been times when I have only held onto my Catholic faith by the smallest of fingernails. I am a doubter. I am a protester.