“Creating space for a variety of pastoral responses is not decentralization. It’s a response to the realities in which people live.”

For the first time since the partition of Ireland, Unionists are not in a majority in Stormont, where Northern Ireland’s parliament meets.

If the rich are different from you and me, how much more different, then, are royalty?

This is not a country at ease with itself, if it ever were. The United Kingdom continues to display more and more intolerance and anger.

Even as Europeans vastly overestimate the actual Muslim populations of their countries, majorities across Europe are deeply concerned about Muslim immigration and support an immediate end to it.

Father Romano Gambalunga said that while "Lucia is already a saint in the eyes" of many people, "the prudent path of the church is that she is proposed to all, not just those who believe."