As things stand, we are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.

Father Edward Reese said he believes Senator McCain would want to leave his fellow Americans with a request for civility and respect in the nation’s political life.

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati of Pennsylvania said he opposes legislation to retroactively loosen time limits on lawsuits by victims of sexual abuse.

Mollie Tibbetts's life was celebrated during a memorial Mass Aug. 26.

The longtime Arizona Republican senator, reared in the Episcopal Church, attended a Southern Baptist megachurch in his later years. He viewed himself as a Christian but had “a distrust of the religious right and a faith that is too public, too political.”