In echo of comments three years ago, Pope Francis strikes a more compassionate tone towards LGBT people
Surprising no one who has followed the Vatican’s pronouncements on homosexuality over the past few years, Pope Francis issued a papal exhortation reiterating the Roman Catholic...
Amid all the hullabaloo over Pope Francis meeting with Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, the pontiff also met with a same-sex couple from Washington during...
The Vatican is walking back its seeming embrace of Kim Davis after receiving backlash from LGBT groups and liberal Catholics disappointed that the pope had...
From awards to papal recognition, Kim Davis is being hailed for blocking same-sex marriages
Controversial Kentucky clerk Kim Davis apparently did meet privately with Pope Francis, a Vatican spokesman seemed to confirm on Wednesday to ABC News. Davis and...
Pope Francis, writing in his encyclical, has called upon transgender people to accept the body they were born with as “God’s gift.” “The acceptance of...
— Pope Francis, speaking to a crowd of 60,000 in Saint Peter’s Square, the Catholic News Agency reports. The Pope made the comments in the...
“The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage.” –Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic...
With my last column of 2013 dedicated to my holiday wishes, the first column of 2014 should obviously be dedicated to predictions. First up in...
One of the more frustrating aspects of the annual media rite of ''Year in Review'' stories is that they start hitting around Dec. 1, which...
So here we are, nearing the end of 2013 under the annual bombardment of year-in-reviews and ''Person of the Year'' covers. While I enjoy reading...
I wanted to speak to Pope Francis last week when I encountered the phrase ''openness to the transcendent'' in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The...
The holidays are approaching, but events are making it hard to get in the festive spirit. Not only is a friend spamming me with polls...
In political advocacy, as in statecraft, purity is a luxury an effective practitioner cannot afford. The tea party's aggressive push for ideological purity has yielded...