The reading from the Book of Daniel this Sunday describes a vision of "one like a Son of man." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a worldwide "Hunger Summit" on Monday in Rome by calling for a "single global vision" to address the plight of the world's estimated 1 billion hungry people.

"My kingdom does not belong to this world," Jesus says to Pilate in this Sunday's gospel. The prospects for lunar exploration and eventual colonization of the moon brightened considerably last weekend when NASA scientists announced they had found "significant" amounts of water on Earth's satellite. 

This Sunday's reading from the Book of Revelation, speaking of Jesus, promises that "every eye will see him." But when it came time for President Barack Obama's much-ballyhooed "town hall meeting" during a visit to China this week, ...

"Holiness befits your house," we hear in this Sunday's psalm. Good health also befits a house of worship. To this end an Italian inventor has developed an electronic holy water dispenser to address the fear of contracting swine flu from dipping one's hand in a communal font of holy water. 

"This is horrible, and I do not want to downplay the significance of these numbers in any way."

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have 237 millionaires, or 44 percent of the members of Congress. Only 1 percent of the general public are millionaires.