The Mount of Olives, where in this Sunday's gospel Jesus challenges the one "who is without sin" to cast the first stone, is located on a ridge overlooking Jerusalem. This week the city of Jerusalem--sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike ...

Differences over complex questions is nothing new to religious groups, as we see in the Sunday gospel's debate between Jesus and Jewish religious leaders about the woman caught in adultery. Leaders of Catholic women's orders representing 59,000 nuns ...

Saint Paul's wish is "that I may gain Christ and be found in him," we hear in this Sunday's second reading. While the Catholic Church in the U.S. has gained membership thanks to Latino population growth over the past two decades ...

"Restore our fortunes, O Lord," the psalmist prays this Sunday. Those coming to retirement age and counting on Social Security benefits may soon be joining in that prayer ...

"I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink," says the Lord in this Sunday's reading from the Book of Isaiah. Repairs and upgrades to the nation's aging water and sewer systems have been neglected for so long ...

"The political and policy environment has changed drastically."

In a recent survey, 74 percent of Democrats said "what bothers me most about Washington" is partisan bickering, while 87 percent of Republicans cited politicians who "think they are smarter than the rest of us."