Preaching the news

16 Aug 2009

Preaching the News for Sunday

Neighborly disagreement at NAFTA-partner summit | Heated divisions stall global warming accord | Vocation study reveals changing face and habits of new entrants | Converting the Volt into a bestseller | For crying out loud

Neighborly disagreement at NAFTA-partner summit

In the reading from the Book of Proverbs this Sunday, Wisdom encourages us to "advance in the way of understanding." Hoping to do the same, leaders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico met in Guadalajara, Mexico ...

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Heated divisions stall global warming accord

The reading from the Letter to the Ephesians this Sunday counsels its hearers to "watch carefully how you live." Global warming is making the urgency of this advice ...

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Vocation study reveals changing face and habits of new entrants

This Sunday's psalm seems ready-made for those who in recent years have chosen to "taste and see" for themselves what Catholic religious life is like. In keeping with the psalmist's desire to bless and praise the Lord at all times, a landmark vocations study reveals ...

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Converting the Volt into a bestseller

We hear in this Sunday's reading from the Book of Proverbs that "Wisdom has built her house." General Motors Corp. (GM) is betting the house on the Chevrolet Volt, its plug-in hybrid ...

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For crying out loud

Jesus promises in this Sunday's gospel to raise "on the last day" those who partake of the bread of life. A baby boy born 16 weeks early and declared dead at a hospital in Asunción, Paraguay ...

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Quote of the week

"All it's lacking is a spark."

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Fact of the week

For the first time U.S. auto rental companies are buying fewer new cars from the big three American manufacturers--48.8 percent--than from foreign firms.

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