Jesus is on the move in this Sunday’s gospel, “determined to journey to Jerusalem,” and despite the risks he makes it clear there is no turning back. Despite a U.S. warrant for his detention, Edward Snowden was allowed to leave Hong Kong . . .

“You were called for freedom, brothers and sisters,” says the reading from the Letter to the Galatians this Sunday. Proponents of same-sex marriage Wednesday hailed two U.S. Supreme Court decisions as landmarks in their struggle . . .

“You will show me the path to life,” the psalmist proclaims this Sunday. By contrast, the state of Texas has escorted 500 people to their deaths since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, the 500th . . .

The law is no longer a yoke around the neck, the second reading affirms this Sunday. As the U.S. Senate sets to vote on a proposed law offering undocumented immigrants a path to legal status and eventual citizenship, House Republicans are pushing ahead with a more onerous bill that would . . .

“May your blessing rest upon Madiba now and always. Grant him, we pray, a quiet night and a peaceful, perfect, end.”

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