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Pope Francis' characterization of worldwide tensions based largely on race and ethnicity couldn't be more on point. The leader of the world's Roman Catholic community labeled it a "virus."
Asked Sunday about Pope Francis' expression of sorrow on the death of Fidel Castro, Sen. Marco Rubio said that as a Catholic he believes in the Pope's theological authority but his faith does not bind him when it comes to foreign policy positions. During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Rubio's criticism of President Obama's statement of condolence following the death of the former Cuban dictator was noted he called it "pathetic" but then interviewer Dana Bash pointed about that Pope Francis, too, had expressed sorrow.
Pope Francis waves as he arrives, accompanied by Cuba's President Raul Castro, at the Havana airport September 19, 2015. REUTERS/Tony Gentile "I express to you my sentiments of grief," said Francis in a message to Castro's brother , President Raul Castro.
Pope Francis is allowing all priests to absolve women of the "grave sin" of abortion, extending indefinitely special permission he had granted for the duration of the just-ended Holy Year of Mercy. Francis wrote in the Apostolic Letter made public by the Vatican on Monday that "there is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled" with God.
Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed by Channel 4 News in the UK about his past statements that women offended online should just "log off" the internet and his assertion that, actually, Islam is the real culprit of rape culture. This is the moment Milo Yiannopoulos is challenged on @BreitbartNews headlines and so-called "post-truth politics."
Re: "Love trumps hate at this church -- After LGBT vote, pastor focused on unity," by Robert Wilonsky, Wednesday Metro column. I wholeheartedly concur with Rabbi David Stern's assessment in Wilonsky's article that George Mason is the "best of the best."
There is no question that Trump Republicans just love bigots. New Trump advisor, Steve Bannon of Breitbart News is the man who told the public that he didn't want his daughters "to go to school with Jewish girls."
He later distanced himself from those statements. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday night, he said he would focus on deporting people with criminal records beyond their immigrant status.
People voting at Oakman Elementary School in the US presidential election on November 8, 2016 in Dearborn, Michigan. Fear and shock were expressed by American Muslims after Republican Donald Trump was confirmed as president-elect of the US after months of anti-Islamic stands.
Pope Francis warned against politics of fear, urging the world to stand against "physical and social walls," in a speech at the Vatican just days before the U.S. Election Day - without referencing it directly - according to America, The National Catholic Review. "Because fear - as well as being a good deal for the merchants of arms and death - weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, numbs us to the suffering of others," he said Saturday.
Tens of thousands of campaign mailers are flooding Kansas homes in advance of the Tuesday election. Direct mail raising "I'm-a-better-Catholic" rhetoric in incumbent Republican Sen. Jake LaTurner's bid to fight off Democratic challenger Lynn Grant, widow of former House member Bob Grant, reveals how ugly messages can be late in a campaign.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York.
In 2009, Russell Moore was a young theologian who occasionally served as the host of a Christian radio show. He liked to let callers have their say, drawing them out with friendly questioning before gently acknowledging, when necessary, that he firmly disagreed.
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin had never run for any political office, until he decided to make a bid for the highest office in the country. The impetus behind the bold idea: give conservative voters an alternative to Republican Donald Trump's firebrand candidacy.
Mormon leaders are telling gay and lesbian members in a new website launched Tuesday that attraction to people of the same-sex isn't a sin or a measure of their faithfulness, but reminding them that acting on those feelings by having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that will not change.
Rev. Cynthia Meyer came out to her congregation at the start of this year. A soft-spoken pastor from Edgerton, Kansas, Meyer is one of many United Methodist clergy who have chosen- in the wake of their church's decision this past spring to uphold its official policy that homosexuality is " incompatible with Christian teachings "-to risk their careers and go public .
Both showed a glimmer of willingness to see beyond their bitter election battle, said the Catholic cardinal who sat between them at a fundraiser Thursday night. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, summed up their chemistry as "awkward" at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a traditionally genial event that turned harsh at times.
Two months after he jumped into the presidential race as a political unknown on the fringe, independent candidate Evan McMullin is surging in the polls in Utah and drawing large crowds at rallies as he becomes the conduit for conservative voters fed up with Republican Donald Trump's crudeness and antics. The Republican stronghold of Utah is suddenly a toss-up state amid widespread rejection of Trump, with polls showing McMullin closing in on the Republican nominee and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Blackwell, who was born Richard Sylvan Selzer, was most famous as the creator of the "Ten Worst Dressed Women List," an annual awards presentation he unveiled in January of each year. 2008: Retired Gen.
To hear the many howls of protest from conservatives, you'd think a handful of emails released by WikiLeaks demonstrates Hillary Clinton's campaign is a nest of anti-Catholics. Fortunately for her, the emails, which are 4 to 5 years old, tell a far more interesting tale about the struggles inside the Catholic Church in the period before the ascendancy of Pope Francis.