Taxing debate dominates deficit reduction efforts | Palestinian plan divides United Nations | Life and death struggle over capital punishment | A reformation of long-frayed ecumenical relations? | Will GPS cut childcare losses?
The Lord poses a question to the people of Israel in this Sunday’s first reading: “Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?” That is the political question of the moment in negotiations to reduce the federal deficit . . .
Saint Paul wants nothing more, we hear in the second reading this Sunday, than that the members of the church at Philippi be “of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing.” The United Nations appears to be anything but united this week . . .
Questions of life and death, virtue and iniquity, mercy and justice are raised in this Sunday’s readings. The case of Troy Davis has done the same. The condemned inmate . . .
That Jesus did not have the highest opinion of the chief priests and religious elders is made clear in this Sunday’s gospel. Despite a history of animosity between Roman Catholic and German Protestant religious leaders . . .
Youth is full of errors in judgment, the psalmist reminds us this Sunday, imploring the Lord to “remember not” the sins of youth. Daycare centers in Sweden have started to use cutting-edge technology to keep their young charges from straying . . .
“What happened here is certainly wrong and it should not have happened. I can assure you that our people will not allow it to happen again.”
According to a Public Religion Research Institute/Religion News Service survey, 61 percent of Americans do not think businesses would act ethically without government regulation.