The Lord saved the afflicted one from his distress, says the psalmist this Sunday. The unexpectedly popular "cash-for-clunkers" incentive plan may be doing the same for the distressed auto industry.

Elijah despairs and is ready to die in the reading from 1 Kings this Sunday. Some of the detainees held indefinitely without trial at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay ...

Jesus is the living bread from heaven that brings abundant life, we learn in this Sunday's gospel. American kids, on the other hand, are not getting enough vitamin D ...

The Letter to the Ephesians this Sunday counsels that all bitterness and anger "must be removed from you." That has not happened in Iran, where anger in the streets ...

Elijah is touched by an angel in this Sunday's reading from 1 Kings. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has rarely been called an angel, but he seemed like one to two American journalists detained for nearly five months in North Korea.

"People have lost their interconnectedness with Mother Earth ever since bottled water became another well-advertised commercial consumer item."

Though the U.S. national unemployment rate is near 10 percent, more than 100,000 nursing jobs are going unfilled.