As we learn in this Sunday’s first reading, the Lamb of God is good to humanity, bringing salvation. But leg of lamb is another story, or so says the World Health Organization. . . .

“Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees,” instructs the reading from the Book of Revelations this Sunday. Catholic leaders concerned with the damage being done to the environment by global warming made a rare appeal . . .

The alleluia before the gospel this Sunday encourages all who “labor and are burdened” to find rest in the Lord. President Obama thinks hard laboring cops under intense scrutiny deserve a break. Police can't be expected to contain problems . . .

God bestows many blessings on humanity, the reading from 1 John tells us this Sunday. Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner wants to bestow a clean slate on his successor, presenting his newly forged budget deal to his Republican colleagues . . .

My sister, Annamaria, died in 1946, ten months before I was born, during the terrible polio epidemics that ravaged our cities in those years. She received her First Holy Communion on her deathbed and was buried in the dress she would have worn on that special day.

"As president I received a mandate, and the mandate of the people of Guatemala is to fight against the corruption that is consuming us.

The Pentagon budget has grown by nearly 50 percent in real dollars over the last 12 years, not including funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.