The reading from the Acts of the Apostles assures us that Jesus brings healing, and healing is what the world needs at the moment as it is confronted with the threat of a swine flu epidemic. The World Health Organization raised the flu pandemic alert level to a 5 at a Wednesday meeting, ...

In John's gospel Jesus describes the qualities of a good shepherd. President Barack Obama will face an assessment of his shepherding skills as he marked his first 100 days in office yesterday, Wednesday. Obama inherited a troubled economy, two wars, and a host of other domestic and international challenges. In his first 100 days Obama ...

While today's psalm speaks of how the "stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone," when it comes to their faith Americans tend not to completely reject cornerstones but simply drift from one to another. According to the results of a survey released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, researchers found that almost three-quarters of Catholics and Protestants ...

The world doesn’t know the children of God, says the First Letter of John, because they did not know God. Perhaps the world would get to know God better if people Twittered a few prayers to friends and family. That's the recommendation of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady.

"Look, some of my best friends are tweeting. But at the risk of unilaterally offending 14 million people, I need to say this: If Twitter were a person, it would be an emotionally unstable person. It would be that person we avoid at parties and whose calls we don't pick up."

According to a new PoliticsHome poll, 54 percent of Americans do not believe the recent "tea parties" protests are significant, while only 39 percent believe that they are. While 81 percent of Republicans do see the tea parties as a significant new movement, 85 percent of Democrats do not.