A picture came across my Facebook newsfeed this week, a stick-skinny boy, ankles poking out of his black trousers, flat belly peeking between the gaps of his partially buttoned shirt, grimly smiling as he holds out what looks like a tub of margarine. It was posted by Welcome Home Africa, the Ugandan orphanage from which […]

VATICAN CITY A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay. The March edition of “Women Church World,” the monthly women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its expose on the underpaid […]

“For it was you who formed my inmost parts. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:14a Wonderfully Made Psalm 139 reminds us that we are so precious to God that nothing can remove us from his supporting and comforting presence. Knit together […]

WASHINGTON The president gently touched the bare wood of Billy Graham’s casket. The speaker of the House bowed his head. And hundreds of other lawmakers, family and friends stood in a rare salute Wednesday to the man they called, “America’s pastor.” “He ministered to all walks, from some of the greats whose statues line this […]