Pope Francis: Gay Lobby Exists, Turbans And Soccer, Prayers For Mandela

June 11, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Pope Francis: Gay Lobby Exists Pope Francis acknowledged the existence of a 'gay lobby' in the Roman Curia for the first time last week and suggested that he was considering taking action on it. The Pontiff made the statement on a 'gay lobby' in the Vatican during an audience granted to CLAR (the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women - Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Religiosos y Religiosas) on June 6, 2013, the Catholic blog Rorate Caeli reported.  Continue reading... Quebec Soccer Federation Suspended Over Turban Ban Troubling Reports Emerge On Benedict XVI's Health Tutu Prays For 'Comfort And Dignity' Of Nelson Mandela Pat Robertson's Bizarre Remarks About Teen Suicide Brazil's Evangelicals Show Muscle In Catholic Brazil He Would Have Turned 9 This Weekend What's Really Going On In Uganda? Brazil's Evangelicals Show Muscle In Catholic Brazil Pat Robertson's Bizarre Remarks About Teen Suicide A New Month For Miriam Look: Why Is This Orthodox Jew Flying In A Huge Plastic Bag? RABBI RICHARD A. BLOCK The God I Don't Believe In I don't know if God is aware of us, hears our prayers or answers them. As a teacher once told me when I asked if he believed in God, "I live in the tension between believing and not believing." Continue reading... LORNA BYRNE I Have God, So Why Do I Need a Guardian Angel? Your guardian angel is one of the most precious gifts that God has given you. If only we would all acknowledge that our guardian angels are real and listened to them, our world would be a much better place. Continue reading... RODNEY L. TAYLOR, PH.D. Partisanship: A Confucian Perspective Never a day passes, it seems, without some new level of partisanship as front-page news. Its effects, as we all know, are nothing short of derailing the very capacity of the government to carry out its most fundamental responsibilities. Continue reading... MICHAEL PETTINGER Darwinism and the Kingdom of God How would it change the way we talk to each other, if we took the Resurrection seriously, not just as a promise to be fulfilled in some distant future, but in the way we live here and now, as we make our way into the Kingdom of God? Continue reading... CATHERINE MEEKS, PH.D. The Least of These The growth of the population of poor folks in America, and the disdain and disregard for them, affects the quality of life for all of us. We are all related as human beings, and the quality of life for each person impacts our collective quality of life. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003