When the Holy Spirit descends on Cornelius’ Gentile household, Peter and the Jerusalem community learn that “God shows no partiality.” Elections, however, are all about partiality, and this past weekend voters in Greece and France . . .

In elections elsewhere, Russians complained that returning leader Vladimir Putin’s gaming of the system and heavy-handed tactics mean that, yet again, “His right hand has won victory for him,” as the psalmist says of God . . .

This Sunday parishes will pass the basket for the Catholic Communication Campaign to help educate Catholics and the public on Catholic concerns. Continuing the recent Vatican push to reform church institutions in the U.S. . . .

It’s all about loving one another as I have loved you, Jesus instructs his disciples in this Sunday’s gospel. That message clearly has not gotten through to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Just ask Father Patrick Conroy, S.J. . . .

Upon meeting Peter, Cornelius fell to his feet, the reading from the Acts of the Apostles tells us, but finding that inappropriate, Peter quickly raised him up. Claire Lomas could not stand for five years after an accident paralyzed her . . .

“I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I . . . was sensitive to the fact that—for a lot of people—that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.”

Even though women use social media more than men, only 21 percent of computer programmers in the U.S. are women, down from 24 percent in 2000.