Rick Wagoner, forced by the Obama administration to resign as head of General Motors Corporation (GM) on Monday, might relate to the psalmist's lament, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" The administration put both GM and Chrysler on notice that they won't get another round of federal aid unless ...

President Obama is widely acknowledged to be an eloquent speaker--to possess "a well-trained tongue," as the author of the Book of Isaiah puts it in this Sunday's reading. Some Catholics are not pleased, however, that he has been invited to deliver the commencement address ...

In this Sunday's gospel narrative of the Passion, we hear how members of the Sanhedrin used questionable tactics as they tried to obtain testimony against Jesus. Amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, the U.S. Justice Department this week asked a federal judge to toss out the conviction of former U.S. senator Ted Stevens ...

Jesus humbled himself to the point of death, we hear this Sunday in the reading from the Letter to the Philippians. Tour guides in Philadelphia, however, find a new law that forces them to take a history exam ...

"The number of products that are going to be recalled over the coming days will grow."

According to a Harris Poll, only 53 percent of U.S. adults know it takes one year for the earth to revolve around the sun, and only 59 percent know that humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.