Preaching the news

27 Feb 2011

Preaching the News for Sunday

Libyan protestors want Gadhafi gone | Milwaukee archbishop urges respect for union rights | Discrimination defined online way out of line | Indigenous of oil-soiled Amazon finally get their day in court | Hispanics lag in Internet usage

Libyan protestors want Gadhafi gone

In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus tells his disciples they must choose a master wisely because they cannot serve more than one. After 41 years under the rule of Moammar Gadhafi, . . .

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Milwaukee archbishop urges respect for union rights

The Sunday reading from the Book of Isaiah relates how a troubled Zion believed the Lord had forgotten and forsaken the people. The archbishop of Milwaukee is urging supporters of legislation to limit or eliminate collective bargaining . . .

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Discrimination defined online way out of line

Saint Paul encourages the Corinthians not to be judgmental but rather to wait for the Lord who “will bring to light what is hidden.” A judgmental definition of religious discrimination . . .

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Indigenous of oil-soiled Amazon finally get their day in court

In the gospel Jesus asks us to consider the birds of the sky and the wild flowers that bloom and fade. Damage to wildlife in the Amazon prompted one indigenous Ecuadoran woman . . .

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Hispanics lag in Internet usage

The psalmist has great confidence, speaking this Sunday of God as “the rock of my strength; my refuge.” In a new survey, Hispanics express a lack of confidence in their Internet abilities, . . .

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Quote of the week

“We will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000.”

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Fact of the week

38.5 of every 100,000 farm and ranch workers suffer fatal injuries each year, compared with 4.4 fatalities per 100,000 firefighters.

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