Time to shed worn-out Afghan policy? | Syrian uprising takes more violent turn | Spanish court indicts Salvadorans | It’s Plessy versus Ferguson no more | Which bishops will get the better of it?
“You renew the face of the earth,” says the psalmist of the Lord this Sunday. A decade of national renewal in Afghanistan may be coming to a quicker end than previously envisioned. In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death and the rising cost . . .
Twice in this Sunday’s Pentecost Day gospel the risen Lord wishes his disciples peace. What had been largely a peaceful protest movement against the Syrian government . . .
Until the Spirit emboldened them at Pentecost, Jesus’ disciples huddled in an upper room in fear for their lives. Two decades ago, six Jesuit priests in war-torn El Salvador had their compound broken into while they slept and were brutally . . .
Saint Paul offers members of the church at Corinth a powerful image of unity in this Sunday’s second reading, that of being “baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons.” The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t see it that way . . .
“Devout Jews from every nation” were in Jerusalem to witness the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost, says this Sunday’s first reading. Some pretty devout sports fans from four cities in two nations are getting into the spirit of the final rounds of this year's NBA and NHL . . .
“Pentecost was not meant to be once-upon-a-time. When we appreciate what the Spirit of God has made of us, it’s Pentecost again.”
Between 1985 and 2001 the stock portfolios of members of the U.S. House of Representatives outperformed the market by an average of 6 percent annualy. U.S. senators did even better, besting even hedge-fund managers.