U.S. troops face deadly assault as Washington debates strategy | Honduran powers loosen the reins on rights | Faith communities hit by economic downturn | U.S. scientists win Nobel Prize for Medicine | Louvre deserves a break from McDonald's, museum staff says
Nothing is preferable to wisdom, says the first reading this Sunday. While a fierce gun battle in Afghanistan over the weekend killed eight U.S. soldiers ...
"We have given up everything and followed you," Saint Peter tells Jesus in this Sunday's gospel. The citizens of Honduras, forced to give up nearly everything having to do with their civil rights by the interim coup government, ...
The psalmist this Sunday calls on the Lord to "prosper the work of our hands." Faith communities, however, are finding little prosperity from the effects ...
In the reading from the Letter to Hebrews we hear that the word of God is sharper than any sword, "penetrating even between . . . joints and marrow." Three U.S. researchers have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize ...
Wealth makes things difficult when it comes to entering the kingdom, Jesus warns in this Sunday's gospel. It can also make things difficult for entering the Louvre if you happen to be the McDonald's Corporation ...
Applications to begin Social Security benefits are up 23 percent this year, driven in part by people in their 60s who have lost their jobs.