Reading Ryan Stollar’s final message through the lens of trauma

“There are violent Catholics.” said Pope Francis. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”

In previous U.S. elections, polls consistently showed that a person’s level of religiosity was one of the biggest predictors in how they would vote. That correlation appears to be weakening.

The leader of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement has been calling for a moral revival — similar to the “revolution of values” of Martin Luther King Jr. — and he distilled that message in a barn-burning 10-minute speech at the DNC.

Although Clinton has confessed a certain reticence when it comes to “advertising” her faith, she has consistently testified to her Methodist faith over the course of her long career in politics.

Here’s the thing: If we start banning citizens from attending public events for one of the two people who will be our next president, we are sliding down a slippery slope to a future reality that is a very, very…

This week’s electoral history, together with a new position for Mary Magdalene, the Church’s first evangelist, align in a strategic deconstruction of any and every sort of submission other than to the Beloved’s presence, purpose and promise.