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In this Sunday’s first reading, David admits to Nathan that he has done wrong. More than 25 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, . . .
During the time of David, Israel lived among hostile neighbors such as the Ammonites mentioned in this Sunday’s reading from 2 Samuel. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cyprus late last week just after the killing in Turkey . . .
The themes of forgiveness, atonement, and justification run through this Sunday’s readings. The social sin of apartheid was abolished in South Africa in 1990 following worldwide condemnation.
A person is not justified by works of the law, the reading from the Letter to the Galatians tells us this Sunday. Outraged Mexican authorities say there is no justification for the killing . . .
A Pharisee invites Jesus to dine with him in this Sunday’s gospel, but Jesus says he has been more attentively served by Mary of Magdala, who along with Joanna, Susanna, and other women provided for the disciples “out of their resources.” Resource-poor families . . .
“What Katrina, Rita, Ike, and Gustav couldn't do, this oil may well accomplish.”
BP's live feed of its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well has been viewed about 300,000 times a day on the Internet; more than 1 million people have watched it via a "spill cam" on various websites