He was a priest who argued that the Catholic Church was fundamentally racist, all the while remaining a faithful member of it.

The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.

Here is a little story about how I left the church, sort of, and then came slouching back home, more or less.

Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.

I testify to you that transgender people are who they say they are.

This week has brought us all into close contact with human suffering. We are all like the man on the side of the road in the story of the Good Samaritan, beaten and bloody.