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“Up, Jerusalem! Stand upon the heights . . . see your children gathered from the east and the west,” exhorts the prophet Baruch in this Sunday’s first reading. The relationship . . .
The gospel this Second Sunday of Advent focuses on the ministry of John the Baptist who, in the tradition of the prophet Isaiah, spoke with “a voice of one crying out in the desert.” Communications technology has evolved a bit since biblical times, so it was . . .
In this Sunday’s second reading Saint Paul rejoices that the Philippians have become true partners in spreading the gospel, which gives him confidence that “the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it.” Dorothy Day, for years . . .
The psalmist this Sunday describes how those who returned from exile in Zion “were like men dreaming.” The U.S. Congress sent a blunt message to a U.N. body meeting this week that wants to wrest control of internet standards and protocols . . .
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