The willingness to use CHIP as a bargaining tactic highlight the misplaced priorities of the current congressional leadership.

Hopelessness is one option. But it is not the Christian one.

In our churches and parishes there can be an enforced invisibility for people living with H.I.V./AIDS. Myths, misunderstanding and prejudice still abound.

The comments came as U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have been debating how to overhaul the nation's health insurance laws.

“There is no obligation to have recourse in all circumstances to every possible remedy” to keep a person alive.

“No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits for wealthy citizens.”