“Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me,” the psalmist implores this Sunday. Pope Francis did some teaching of his own last Sunday when he used the occasion of a one-day visit to mostly Muslim Albania . . .

In the long version of this Sunday’s second reading Saint Paul asserts that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bend . . . and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Most Americans today, however, say religion’s influence in society . . .

After hearing the complaints of the house of Israel, the Lord asks in this Sunday’s reading from the Book of Jeremiah, “Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?” A clash between traditionalist and reformer bishops over fair treatment for divorced . . .

The disconnect between what a landowner’s sons say and what they do is the theme in this Sunday’s gospel where Jesus uses the story to hold a mirror up to his audience’s hypocrisy. These days, there seems to be a disconnect between the number of people in surveys who say they regularly attend religious services . . .

"Climate change is the defining issue of our age. It is defining our present. Our response will define our future.”

More than a third of people with good mental well-being ate five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day, compared with only 6.8 percent who ate less than one portion.