In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, the Cardinal Sarah says the church must proclaim that homosexuality is “at odds with nature.”

“I cannot compare it to anything,” Donna Markham, O.P., president of Catholic Charities USA, says of the storm. “The expanse of it…it is bigger than Katrina. The loss of life has not been as great as Katrina, but the damage is just monumental.”

Proponents say the program will help to provide scholarships for 6,000 to 10,000 students in religious and other private schools statewide.

What were once church-dividing teachings no longer define the majority of American Protestant belief.

Catholic leaders voice alarm that the president will end the DACA program protecting undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children.

Despite the fall of apartheid in 1994 and the reconciliatory tone set by the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, the demon of racism is very much alive here.