Saint Peter testifies in this week’s second reading that God had "anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him." This week’s 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty . . .

The heavens opened in this Sunday's gospel story of the baptism of Jesus. This week the Arctic heavens opened when a weather phenomenon known as a polar vortex brought record low temperatures to a large portion of the United States. Ironically the vortex could show . . .

The prophet Isaiah says the Lord’s servant will "open the eyes of the blind" and “bring out prisoners from confinement.” Less use of cellphones, recent research indicates, may open the eyes of young people and help lead them out . . .

Jesus comes out of the water and sees the heavens open, the Spirit of God descend in the form of a dove, and a voice declare him “beloved.” How will Americans react when a drone aircraft flies out of the sky seeking a threat or delivering a package? . . .

"This was definitely of his own volition. It's cold out there, too cold to run around. I can understand why the suspect would turn himself in."

A new study suggests the existence of a "belief superiority" attitude in which people at the extreme ends of the conservative-liberal spectrum think the views of the other side are 100 percent wrong, even evil.