Fractured Iraq struggles for unity government | Missionaries risk illness to heal | Robin Williams’ death brings focus to depression, suicide | Longtime sanction on priest lifted
“May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity,” the psalmist prays this Sunday. Iraq is struggling to form a new and equitable government that can bring the divided nation together . . .
Saint Paul reminds us in the reading from the Letter to the Romans that “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.” Dr. Kent Brantly, the missionary who is being treated for Ebola at Emory University Hospital in Georgia, released a statement . . .
The Canaanite woman in this Sunday’s gospel comes to Jesus desperate for help for her daughter, who was “tormented by a demon.” The death of actor and entertainer Robin Williams . . .
In the universal vision of the prophet in this Sunday’s first reading, all are welcome into the house of God. Within the ranks of active clergy, that now includes a Central American priest Pope Francis has reinstated after lifting a ban dating back 29 years. . . .
“We understand the anger, we understand that people want answers, and we understand that we’ve got a problem. But we’re just asking people to be peaceful.”