“No servant can serve two masters,” Jesus says in this Sunday’s gospel about human loyalties divided between God and money. During a visit to Great Britain this Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th-century English churchman who struggled with deeply divided loyalties . . .

Just as Saint Paul was “teacher of the Gentiles,” campus ministers in the U.S. hope Cardinal John Henry Newman’s beatification will help them make the British scholar, philosopher, and writer more familiar to today's college students . . .

Saint Paul was unabashed in his apostolic zeal and proselytizing mission, as we hear in this Sunday’s excerpt from the First Letter to Timothy. A federal appeals court this week ruled that the University of Wisconsin at Madison was wrong to deny student funding to a Catholic campus group . . .

This Sunday the psalmist stirs us with his powerful witness to God’s defense of the poor, whom “he raises . . . from the dust” to sit with “the princes of his own people.” Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence this week . . .

The prophet Amos castigates those “who trample upon the needy” and those who buy the poor “for a pair of sandals,” but for those 60 years of age or older a brisk walk in a good pair of sandals might be just what the doctor ordered . . .

"We can say that no part of the country escapes sexual abuse of minors by one or several [clergy] members."

Due to the bad job market and increased border security, the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has plunged from 850,000 to 300,000 a year, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study.