My father’s first cousin, Elizabeth Farinas Callejo Laici of Porto Recanati, Italy, has passed away.

A poem.

It was my favorite of Herman Melville's novellas. The gayness in it was unsaid subtext. A French stage production brings the secret out into the open.

“This is just cruel,” said David Fields, a longtime HIV/AIDS housing advocate and case worker in Wisconsin and now doing similar work in Chicago.

Morning observation at the Green Bay Road Jewel in Wilmette, Illinois.

It’s the highest-rated show on late-night television. Colbert has been voice for anti-Trumpism.

May his theology of exclusion die with him.

Public media is necessary in a democracy, especially in a capitalist society that values commercially-driven messaging.

This is the branch of the Democratic Party that will sabotage the people’s choice to keep themselves in control.

Able-bodied vets with PTSD, persons with non-visible disabilities, can work in the fields, according to the Secretary of Agriculture.

This is how authoritarian regimes operate.

Protestant leaders should follow his example to do whatever is in their power to provide Sanctuary—in all its meanings.

Courts have not fully educated themselves on the reality of dementia, that the man they’re executing is no longer the man who committed the crime.

The longtime firebrand Honolulu mayor can best Chicago’s Richard J. Daley.

He is no humble shepherd. He is a multimillionaire media mogul with a culture wars axe to grind.

I disagree with plenty of Catholic theology—especially on LGBTQ and women’s issues. So why should I care? The answer is simple: Chicago.

People, even those who claim to follow Jesus, say that victims of floods and other disasters somehow deserved what happened to them because of how they vote or where they live.

A mural showing Superman punching an ICE agent was vandalized—but only Superman got hit. The ICE agent in the painting was left untouched.

This 1991 film about friendship, food, and small-town Alabama perfectly shows the kind of Christian love that shapes my faith, despite its complex background spanning different spiritual traditions through the generations in my family in the far-off Ilocos and Hawaii.