When I was in Catholic grade school the nuns used to smack me around a lot, but the verbal abuse was a lot worse. “Jesus doesn’t like you,” my second grade teacher told me, “because you don’t obey!” For year after those four years in Catholic Grade school, I thought

Pope Francis denounced the “complicit silence” that has allowed violence to consume the Middle East and drive tens of thousands of Christians from their homes, during a remarkable gathering Saturday of Orthodox patriarchs and Catholic leaders united in praying for peace in the region. Francis hosted the daylong ecumenical service