Brian Cahill

Commentary: In endorsing adoption discrimination, the U.S. bishops ignore the reality that in different parts of the country, the largest cohort of potential adoptive parents for many children are gay and lesbian couples.

I am in my late 70s, but it has only been recently that I have begun to experience grace arising from the worst kind of pain, from the depths of pain, and in the death of two of my children.

This is about a father who has to fight against feeling that he is a freak. This is about a father who is still trying to figure out how to pray after his life turned upside down — twice.