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FaithFaith in Focus
Emily Kahm
When you replace “God” with “Dog” in a lot of Bible verses, they became startlingly apt commentary.
Pope Francis greets a resident as he arrives to give an Easter blessing to a home in a public housing complex in Ostia, a Rome suburb on the Mediterranean Sea, on May 19. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
"It was a great surprise today when, instead of the pastor, the one ringing the door bells was Pope Francis."
FaithThe Word
What might get lost in this elegant theology is that the Trinity does not act merely for God’s own glory, but to form a people.
FaithThe Word
Our most important task is to reveal God at work. Such efforts continue the original work of the apostles, who spoke “in their own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
Saffron Edwards, 15, holds up a rainbow-colored umbrella during a student walkout at Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Students, alumni and supporters were protesting the school’s decision not to hire a gay teacher in April 2015. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Michael Zamora)
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Despite shifting views among average Catholics, advocates for L.G.B.T. people say the church can still feel unwelcoming. Church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” has not changed.
A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
"The commission held as credible the first apparitions," he said. "Afterward, things became a little more complicated."