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Sunday, October 11 was National Coming Out Day. The Canada-based Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights is featuring Telling Our Stories, a video portrait series. These countries were selected for…

Does God really work in such mysterious ways? Or, is it only the theologians who do?

Last week I took an urgent phone call from my brother who was seething about the pope’s visit with Kim Davis. A gay man who refuses to vacate his Roman Catholic pew, Robby’s Facebook post on the topic…

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (pronounced iggle-hurk) announced last Monday that it has formally changed its name to OutRight Action International, with a tagline of “human…

Seems like the meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis was not as good for him as it was for her. In a statement released by the Vatican, approved by the pope, the Vatican stated “the Pope met with…

The Blessed Virgin Mary could have appeared on the White House Lawn during Pope Francis’ US visit and no one would have noticed. It was non-stop Francis across the media, social and traditional—not to…

Throughout Pope Francis’ historic U.S. visit, people talked about him in terms of a sharply polarized American politics. It does make sense to see Francis in these terms, given his willingness (as RD…

I made a lot of jokes about what to wear to the Pope’s Interfaith Service at Ground Zero yesterday. I was so thrilled to be invited that I needed a slant way to lose my pride and let it imitate the…

On Friday, Pope Francis went for an walk alongside the north pool of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza to meet with ten families who lost loved ones at the twin towers and to participate in an interfaith…

On the eve of the papal visit, William Penn’s City of brotherly love, Philadelphia, is feeling anything but. With each twist and turn over the long hot summer in the planning for the papal visit…