A life-sentence for stealing a $159 jacket? It sounds like something out of Les Miserables, but in fact it is one of the 3,281 cases of U.S. prisoners given life sentences for nonviolent crimes, according to a recently released report. Jesus warned that: “You will even be handed over by parents, brothers . . .

The call for the Thessalonians to imitate the humble and hardworking ways of the followers of Jesus sounds similar to the strategy the Occupy Wall Street activists are putting into play by their recent purchase of $15 million in American’s personal debt, which they then cancelled . . .

Not that it is anything to be proud about—remember Yahweh’s promise that the proud “will be stubble”—but Pope Francis was deemed the most-talked-about person on the planet according to an annual survey that tracks top online talkees. The Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based tracking . . .

“There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place,” Jesus told his disciples about the end time. While Typhoon Haiyan may not have signaled the end of the world, it has certainly changed the worlds of the millions of people in the Philippines and beyond. One of the . . .

"The challenge for us in welcoming people and most especially serving people who are voiceless and vulnerable spans right across the board from our work in immigration [to] our work in serving people who are poor."

Movies rated PG-13 today contain more violence than the R-rated films of the 1980s, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. In particular, gun violence in PG-13 films has tripled since 1985, the year that rating was introduced.