“The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want,” the psalmist prays this Sunday. Roman Catholics looking to their shepherds for reform of the Curia, the Holy See’s administration, will likely have to wait until 2015 for results . . .

“When he was insulted,” the First Letter of Peter says of Jesus this Sunday, “he returned no insult.” Those who might have considered the claim based on an ancient papyrus fragment that Jesus had a “wife” to be an insult will not have to worry about returning it now that it appears . . .

“Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep," Jesus says in this week's gospel reading from John. Through Jesus people begin their journey of faith, and as part of that journey they learn the value of prayer. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly sustained the legality of offering prayers . . .

"What are we to do?" said those around Saint Peter in response to his preaching. The church may well be asking the same question about young Latinos, who are leaving the Catholic Church in droves, according to a new study, with many drifting . . .

“Many don’t see it as a problem of the universal church. . . . The church has to face it is everywhere in the world. There is so much denial. The church has to respond to make the church safe for children.”

Only 39 percent of workers say they do their best thinking in the office, while 39 percent say they do their best thinking at home.