School kids benefit from junk food bans | Women religious hope for dialogue on Vatican critique | Most believe guns don’t belong in church | Would Ryan budget fight poverty or punish the poor?
Food good for the soul is front and center in this Sunday’s readings, while food not good for the body is front and center for doctors and nutritionists who are alarmed by the fact . . .
Wisdom’s hope for the people of God is clear in the Book of Proverbs this Sunday: “Advance in the way of understanding.” Expressing a similar hope, albeit with some wariness, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious . . .
“Watch carefully how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise,” the excerpt this Sunday from the Letter to the Ephesians cautions. When it comes to gun control, what is foolish and what is wise is a hotly contested question. But on the question . . .
“When the poor one called out,” the psalmist says this Sunday, “the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him.” Presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget priorities are coming in for some criticism, including from U.S. Catholic bishops . . .
"All the more reason to turn the nation's vacant lots into urban gardens."
A new survey shows that almost half of all Americans die with less than $10,000 in financial assets.