In a wide-ranging news conference that touched on clerical sex abuse, the role of women in the church and LGBT issues, Cardinal Kevin Farrell said the fundamental message of the Gospel was the same for all of God's creation.

For Jesus, it’s community first, conversion second. Welcome and respect come first.

I have found myself for the first time truly afraid of what it means to ask and to allow my children to be part of the church.

Like the apostles, we have been sent out two by two to proclaim the message of Jesus with our imperfect lives.

Your mom’s gone. That’s what people told me during the last year of my mother’s life when she suffered from dementia.

They stood out because they stood together, employing the wisdom of young parents, in the back of a hotel ballroom packed with 2,800 permanent deacons, their wives and children.