Referring to his body rather than a building, Jesus tells Jewish leaders in this Sunday’s gospel, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, believing that Iran wishes to destroy Israel, took the highly unusual step of addressing the U.S. Congress to urge lawmakers . . .

Saint Paul points out in the reading from 1 Corinthians that what seems foolish to the world may be wise in the eyes of God, and what seems weak may be strong. A homeless man who wandered the streets near the Vatican but attended daily Mass  . . .

In this Sunday’s first reading, Moses receives the divine law that declares what must be done and must not be done. Before the Supreme Court this week: yet another challenge to the Affordable Health Care Act, this one claiming that the law as written forbids healthcare subsidies in all states that . . .

For the psalmist this Sunday, the law of the Lord is trustworthy, clear, and pure. Responding to concerns about the level of antibiotics injected into commercially raised poultry—which results in antibiotic-resistant infections—McDonald's announced Wednesday that it would begin using chicken clear . . .

"It's a mortal sin to discard our elderly. The elderly are not aliens, we are them, in a short or in a long while; we are inevitably them, although we choose not to think about it."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in 2013 that at least 2 million Americans fall sick each year because of antibiotic-resistant infections and at least 23,000 die from them.