Civilian massacre further damages U.S.-Afghan relations | Potential da Vinci discovery comes to light in Florence | Tragic end to schoolchildren’s Alpine ski outing | “Where’s the beef?” critics ask about “pink slime”
The anger of the Lord against his people was so inflamed “that there was no remedy,” we learn in this Sunday’s reading from 2 Chronicles. The United States scrambled this week to remedy the outrage caused by a devastating massacre of 16 Afghan civilians . . .
This Sunday’s gospel explains that those doing “wicked things” avoid the light so that their “works might not be exposed.” When it comes to bringing to light a possible Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece . . .
During their exile the Jewish people “sat and wept” by the streams of Babylon when they remembered Zion. Parents in Belgium wept at the news that a tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class ski trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps . . .
Commenting on Israel’s dramatic fall from grace in this Sundays’ first reading, Alice Camile writes in Exploring the Word that “human nature hasn’t changed much in thousands of years.” Now as then we tend to “pollute what is sacred, mock prophets, disdain good advice, and ignore all timely warnings.” Perhaps the power of social media can get people to start paying attention . . .
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Meat-consumption in the U.S. has dropped 12.2 percent over the past five years, the U.S.D.A. reports. Rising costs as well as health and environmental reasons have contributed to the decline.