Severely obese children face severe challenges | Abundant riches for the scarce few | Temple treasure unearthed in Jerusalem | Ads add incentive to quit smoking | A lost Van Gogh comes out of the attic
God seeks to rescue both the sons lost to sin and to self-righteousness, the parable in the long version of this Sunday’s gospel demonstrates. Alas, no such . . .
“Indeed, the grace of our Lord has been abundant,” exclaims the author in the reading from 1 Timothy this Sunday. The wealthiest 1 percent of the population in the U.S. has experienced . . .
While Jesus speaks metaphorically of the search for a lost coin in this Sunday’s gospel, the real thing—and then some—has been discovered beneath the floor of a Byzantine building . . .
We hear in this Sunday’s first reading of the Lord’s frustration with the stubbornness of his “stiff-necked” people . . .
A lost sheep, a lost coin, a lost child—all are used in this Sunday’s gospel to demonstrate how precious each person is . . .
Though the United States has been involved in more than a dozen military conflicts over the past 70 years, Congress has not formally declared war on any country since 1942 (against Nazi allies Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania).