The Pharisees regularly try to trip up Jesus with tricky questions, as in this Sunday’s gospel where they use the matter of divorce as a “wedge issue.” Eyes and ears were tuned to questions and issues Wednesday evening as the two main presidential contenders met . . .

The psalmist this Sunday invokes the Lord’s blessing that the listener “may see your children’s children.” Holocaust survivors in modern-day Israel have mixed feelings about some of their descendants tattooing their elders’ concentration camp numbers on their own bodies . . .

Speaking about marriage in the gospel, Jesus argues that “what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” Turkey is arguing in strong terms for the return of artifacts separated from their place of origin without permission . . .

In Sunday’s second reading, Alice Camille points out in "Exploring the Word," “Jesus calls us brothers and sisters, which makes us kin to him in the Spirit.” But the family-feeling is lost on some traditionalist Catholics . . .

“Every believer” must make it their own task to “rediscover the content of the faith that is professed, celebrated, lived, and prayed” by Catholics.

According to a poll from the First Amendment Center, Americans oppose unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions by a 2-to-1 margin.