This broadcast had several important features offer us a kind of "coming attractions" to the pope’s visit to our country.

The influx of refugees to Europe is becoming a defining crisis of our time.

No two men could have been more different: one was a pope and successor of St. Peter, the other, a political science professor turned politician president.

Most devastating have been the images of dead children washing onto the Libyan side of the Mediterranean Sea, like that of 3-year-old Aylan.

We should be honest as a culture about the fact that these children are killed not because they are a burden on themselves, but because having a child with Down’s doesn’t meet our expectations.

So why do churches receive tax benefits? One reason is many congregations do “great work.”