If our faith were even “the size of a mustard seed,” all sorts of things would be possible, Jesus says in this Sunday’s gospel. The scope of our knowledge about our faith also comes up short, according to new research. Atheists and agnostics, . . .

By way of analogy this Sunday, Jesus describes when it is and is not appropriate for a servant to "eat and drink." According to a new study on alcohol and longevity, however, it may be appropriate to have a drink--or two.

In the Sunday gospel, Jesus suggests the appropriate response to having done our duty should not be to boast but simply to say “we have done what we were obliged to do.” Monday President Barack Obama signed a small business tax and lending bill . . .

“Do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,” counsels this Sunday’s second reading. Hate speech by an infamous Kansas church group whose leader clearly knows no shame . . .

"Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery?" the prophet laments in this Sunday’s reading from the Book of Habakkuk. Catholic Bishop Jose Lai Hung-Seng of Macau asks a similar question . . .

“I cannot get the sound of his voice out of my head, and I cannot forget the smell of his cologne, and I cannot forget the way he made me cry when I drove in his car on the way home.”

Thirty percent of Americans classified as "overweight" say they are of normal weight, and 77 of the "obese" say they are only "overweight."