"The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power," this Sunday's psalm intones. Pope Benedict XVI is calling for the power of peace and reconciliation on a tour of nations in the Middle East ...

God shows no partiality, we hear in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles this Sunday. Neither should the U.S. health care system, says President Barack Obama in his push for health care reform and universal coverage, which began in earnest this week.

Jesus reminds his disciples in this Sunday's gospel reading that "it was not you who chose me, but I who chose you." A record 1 million immigrants chose to become U.S. citizens in 2008, ...

The psalmist praises the "wondrous deeds" of the Lord this Sunday. For 19 years the Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back to earth wondrous images of the universe's farthest-flung mysteries.

This Sunday's reading from the First Letter of John encourages its hearers to love one another. There was no love lost between many in the Catholic Church and the producers of the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, which suggested Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children.

"If you are watching this message, it is because I have been murdered by Alvaro Colom."

Criminal gangs in the U.S. have swelled to around 1 million members, an increase of more than 200,000 since 2005, a new Justice Department report found. Gangs are now “the primary retail distributor of most illegal drugs” and are responsible for up to 80 percent of the crime in many communities.