Commentary: For most of her teen years, my daughter Alana was surrounded by priests and nuns who believed they were "saving her soul" by frightening her about her same-sex attraction.
Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion's clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
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.
A senior Dutch priest criticized media reports on the death of a teenager experiencing depression, accusing foreign media of "sensationalizing euthanasia" in his country.
The Field Hospital: 22-year-old founds school for the deaf in Uganda; Portland Vietnamese parish rallies after attack; inmates to construct World Youth Day confessionals.
Nothing chases a person out of the Catholic Church and away from Christ faster than a bad priest. The priest does not have to be a child molester. He may simply be arrogant, patriarchal, insensitive or just stupid.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Penance for "little monsters"; taxes on nonprofit parking lots; Mulvaney's "odio a Puerto Rico"; Ratzinger on new evangelization
