A racial injustice overcome—finally | One of physics' bright lights passes | Truckers driven to distraction | Ad in poor taste highlights abusive practice
“Harden not your hearts,” counsels the psalmist this Sunday. Back in 1961, hearts hardened against African Americans led to the sentencing of civil-rights protestors to hard labor jail terms. On Wednesday, a South Carolina judge threw out the 54-year-old convictions . . .
In this Sunday’s first reading, Moses promises the people a prophet for the age to come. Physicist Charles Townes had sufficient prophetic vision in the 1950s to imagine a machine capable of emitting an intense beam of light . . .
Saint Paul calls for “adherence to the Lord without distraction” in this Sunday’s excerpt from the First Letter to the Corinthians. The National Transportation Safety Board wants truckers to pay attention to the road . . .
This Sunday’s gospel tells us that when Jesus entered the synagogue in Capernaum and began teaching, “the people were astonished at his teaching.” Controversial Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy.com astonished television viewers ...
An average of six people die of alcohol poisoning each day in the United States.