On this World Mission Sunday, Alice Camille reminds us in Exploring the Word, we acknowledge missionaries from here to Mongolia (the world’s youngest Catholic mission) bound to God’s service by the law of love alone. A doctor working for a medical mission group in Liberia who contracted and then recovered . . .

In this Sunday’s first reading, the Lord reminds Cyrus, “his anointed,” that he has been “opening doors before him and leaving the gates unbarred” to facilitate Cyrus’ success. In their midpoint assessment, Catholic bishops at the two-week Synod on the Family currently underway at the Vatican . . .

The author of the Letter to the Thessalonians gives thanks to God for all that the community does, “calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love.” In a labor of love and a leap of faith, a Harvard University student who was brought to the U.S. without documents . . .

Though Jesus’ advice to “repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God,” which we hear in this Sunday’s gospel, is one of the most oft-quoted lines of scripture, in real life many a multinational corporation . . .

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

There are more Catholic sisters in the United States over age 90 than under age 60.