Ray Kelly is the Director of Community Relations for the No Boundaries Coalition and a member of the pastoral council at St. Peter Claver.

We choose hope or hopeless, Harbaugh said. “We work together or alone. We turn our face humbly to our God, or we turn our back.”

An interfaith and ecumenical delegation from Baltimore met with Pope Francis March 2 in Rome following the pontiff’s general audience.

“It’s an opportunity for us to focus collectively and uniquely on a variety of issues and possible resolutions,” Father Donald Sterling said.

“He followed what the church believes and teaches,” Archbishop Lori said.

Scalia said it wasn’t his job to make policy or law, but to “say only what the law provides.”

The Catholic Church is providing a welcome and a place of refuge for them at a time when many in the wider society want them to go home.

Unless a man and woman are willing to give up their individuality for one another in marriage, Father Rooker said, they have no right to marry

“When you’re a disciple in the presence of the Eucharist, something happens to you,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “You’re transformed.”

To help with the trauma of abortion, the Catholic Church offers healing and ministry of presence.