Gays are created in the image of God. So are liberals. The rich. The undocumented. Unbelievers. Everyone, even, and most importantly, the people with whom you do not agree. That’s the message of the ...

Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCTM, by its Italian acronym), contends that instead of a single reparative action, ...

Few ideas have changed the world as profoundly as the doctrine that all human beings who have ever lived bear God’s likeness. In Genesis 1:27, when God creates the first people, we learn that he ...

Pope Francis blesses a woman as he greets people who have disabilities following Mass in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring) The recently released Vatican document “Dignitas ...

No one under the sun knows exactly what the image of God is in human beings. Creativity? Self-awareness? I’ll tell you this. It ain’t something to be arrogant about. “Whatsoever is, is in God, and ...

Is God male? Or is she female? For Scripture scholars, the answer is equivocal…or the answer is neither. “The God of scripture is beyond sexuality, neither male nor female, nor a combination of the ...