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This Sunday’s readings focus on the worldwide scope of God’s promise of salvation. Religious pluralism and tolerance were challenging notions in biblical times and they remain so today . . .
Though necessary at times for the greater good, discipline can be painful, this Sunday’s reading from the Letter to the Hebrews tells us. Gen. Stanley McChrystal would likely agree . . .
We receive a moral pep talk in the reading from Hebrews, encouraging us to strengthen “drooping hands” and “weak knees” so that “what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.” That may be good advice for your soul, but if your body is ailing . . .
The psalmist this Sunday encourages believers to “go out to all the world and tell the good news.” A priest in Italy has found a unique way to do so.
Corporate charitable contributions fell 7.5 percent last year. Walmart topped the list of corporate donors, giving $288 million, down 10.1 percent from 2008.