Preaching the news

26 Oct 2014

Preaching the News for Sunday

Educate, don’t intimidate, immigrant children | Do we seek nothing new from the news? | Walking tall after surgery to repair paralysis | Concern mounts over air-bag safety

Educate, don’t intimidate, immigrant children

The mandate in this Sunday’s first reading is clear: "You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.” The message has not gotten through to many public school districts nationwide, where students are being turned away . . .

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Do we seek nothing new from the news?

Like the Sadducees and Pharisees of Jesus’ time who didn’t see eye to eye on the most important religious issues, conservatives and liberals of today differ on fundamental . . .

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Walking tall after surgery to repair paralysis

God is a reliable source of strength and deliverance, we hear in this Sunday’s psalm. A man paralyzed four years ago when his spinal cord was severed in a knife attack has been delivered from paralysis  . . .

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Concern mounts over air-bag safety

In the reading from the Book of Exodus this Sunday, the Lord delivers fair warning that if we harm the most defenseless among us, there will be consequences. The makers of air bags . . .

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Quote of the week

The things that we love tell us what we are.

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Fact of the week

The standard size of a soft drink has increased from 6.5 ounces to 20 ounces since the 1950s.

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