In a homily Father VanDenBroeke gave on Jan. 5, the feast of the Epiphany and, in Minnesota, Immigration Sunday, he acknowledged the complexity of immigration as a political issue and that the Bible challenges Catholics to "welcome strangers."

The aid reached families in Berdale, a small town center of 50,000 people, including 6,000 people displaced from their homes.

Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion's clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Truth and beauty can be found outside the walls of church, in a space that belongs to those who worship differently.

Christians and Muslims must, as never before, join hands to bear witness to God’s sovereignty, to God’s love for each and every member of the human family, to God’s desire that we lead upright lives.

I had never truly experienced what representation in media felt like until I watched Hulu’s “Ramy.”