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As the church enters Advent, the season of watchful anticipation, Jesus urges his followers to live in such a way as to be prepared at all times to receive the Lord at the unexpected hour. In a similar vein, Pope Francis issued what . . .
Christians await the Prince of Peace during Advent, just as the 8th-century prophet Isaiah foresaw a time of universal peace among the nations when “one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.” While . . .
“According to the decree for Israel . . . in it are set up judgment seats, seats for the house of David,” explains the psalmist this Sunday. According to the U.S. Constitution, the highest seats of judgment are set up in the Supreme Court. That court agreed Tuesday to sit in judgment on provisions . . .
More than six in ten workers in a recent Washington Post-Miller Center poll worry that they will lose their jobs to the economy, surpassing concerns in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s.