Comprehensive immigration reform on horizon | Even Venice can flood | Pope says promoting Latin right thing to do | Europeans pan austerity in pan-national protests
“You it is who hold fast my lot,” the psalmist says of the Lord this Sunday. The lot of some 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. lies with Congress, where there are signs that a comprehensive approach to immigration reform . . .
Both the gospel and the first reading this Sunday speak of a time of tribulation when people will be forced to move. Fast-rising waters forced hundreds to flee their homes in Venice, Italy Monday as near-record flood waters inundated the fabled city and filled . . .
The second reading this Sunday says that “every priest stands daily at his ministry.” Pope Benedict XVI wants those studying for the Catholic priesthood, as well as the wider populace, to gain greater familiarity with Latin, the ancient language . . .
The reading from the Book of Daniel this Sunday predicts “a time unsurpassed in distress.” Thousands of Europeans struggling to get by during a time of rising unemployment and falling economic activity took to the streets . . .
Since 2007, 73 members of the U.S. Congress have sponsored bills benefitting themselves or their families—a practice permitted under rules Congress itself made.