It will be a demanding trip health-wise for the 84-year-old pontiff coming just two months after his colon operation on July 4.

Archbishop Koch said he regarded the double marginalization of Catholic gays — within the Catholic community as well as in the LGBTQ community — as “problematic and painful.”

Some activists in Hungary have reacted to an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. law by calling for an investigation of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, writes Marc Roscoe Loustau. But turning the crisis into a political football may backfire.

Fascism has proved sufficiently elastic to be used as a term of abuse across the political spectrum.

Before going to the hospital for colon surgery July 4, Pope Francis told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square that he would be visiting Hungary and Slovakia Sept. 12-15.

‘Lourdes’ is a film of dignity, charity and profundity—one in which hope is made palpable.