Preaching the news

12 Apr 2015

Preaching the News for Sunday

More cameras shooting for fewer police shootings | Boston bomber found guilty—now comes the difficult question | Fewer Americans losing their jobs | Prostitutes who roam Rome at center of controversy

More cameras shooting for fewer police shootings

Seeing is believing, suggests this Sunday’s gospel narrative of the apostle Thomas wishing to see the resurrected Lord with his own eyes. The mayor of North Charleston, where a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the back last Saturday, . . .

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Boston bomber found guilty—now comes the difficult question

In the second reading this Sunday, we hear that “the Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth.” The testimony was overwhelming in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted Wednesday on all counts in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings . . .

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Fewer Americans losing their jobs

In the early church, “there was no needy person among them,” the reading from the Acts of the Apostles this Sunday informs us, as the first believers cheerfully relinquished “mine” for “ours.” In modern times . . .

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Prostitutes who roam Rome at center of controversy

Prostitution on the streets of Rome has become a widespread problem. But the solution proposed by the local government is also problematic, and Catholic leaders are among those who oppose it. The government proposes relocating . . .

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Quote of the week

“A courageous act by the church to draw closer to the people of God.”

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Fact of the week

People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.

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