Preaching the news

26 May 2013

Preaching the News for Sunday

Time to order your designer genes? | Scouting out the moral high ground | Clergy believe revisions to Roman Missal fall short | Arreviderci, wallet

Time to order your designer genes?

What is a human being that God would even be mindful of us, wonders the psalmist, before affirming that God has made us “little less than the angels.” The belief that human beings are a sacred creation of God may change dramatically . . .

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Scouting out the moral high ground

This Sunday’s second reading speaks of how endurance in faith produces “proven character.” Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has focused on character-building. Now that the organization is preparing to vote on whether . . .

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Clergy believe revisions to Roman Missal fall short

Wisdom has been God’s “delight day by day” since it was established, the Sunday reading from the Book of Proverbs tells us. More than a year after revisions to the prayers and rubrics of the Catholic Mass were established . . .

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Arreviderci, wallet

In the gospel for this Sunday’s Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Jesus promises his disciples that when the Holy Spirit comes “he will glorify me.” In the two millennia since, many an artist also has been inspired to glorify the divine, and perhaps none . . .

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Quote of the week

"I couldn't hear anything but people screaming and crying. It felt like the school was just flying."

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Fact of the week

In 41 states, college sports coaches are the highest paid state employees, surpassing governors, university presidents, and doctors and lawyers working for state agencies.

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