Pope Francis has invoked the civil rights crusader in three high-profile messages delivered during his pontificate.

Jionni Conforti's sex and gender discrimination lawsuit comes as new regulations hailed as groundbreaking anti-discrimination protections for transgender people are under legal attack from religious groups.

The church is at her absolute best when she is a bold and prophetic voice for the power of the love upon which our faith is based.

The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.

Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.

Archbishop Wester: "Countless nonprofits and civic organizations work to fill food baskets, but some legislators want to take food out of another basket, the grocery basket, with their proposed food tax."