“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” sums up our mutual obligation for each other’s well being, Saint Paul argues in this Sunday’s second reading. President Obama on Labor Day appealed to our sense of neighborly solidarity, saying it was time to make sure all Americans can meet simple goals like being able to pay their bills and send their children to school. . . .

In this Sunday’s reading from the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet is held accountable for the word he is to announce to the people. One wealthy Catholic donor worries that church donations from the rich will fall on account of Pope Francis’ critique of wealth and poverty. But Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York says the donor . . .

“Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord. . . . Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving,” exclaims the psalmist in calling us to rejoice this Sunday. There was rejoicing and thanksgiving aplenty in a North Carolina courtroom Tuesday when two mentally disabled half-brothers were declared innocent and released 30 years after their convictions . . .

This Sunday’s gospel instructs us that in every action, the community of faith should act together to promote the good. Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday announced the largest public-works project of his administration, a new airport in Mexico City that eventually will have six runways . . .

“I grew apart from the church because I thought it wasn’t doing enough for the needy, but with Francis it’s different.”

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