Preaching the news

7 Feb 2016

Preaching the News for Sunday

Time for a pregnant pause on alcohol | Homily story of the week | Addiction epidemic requires resources | Will the UK stick with the EU? | Toyota settles credit discrimination claim

Time for a pregnant pause on alcohol

In this Sunday’s second reading, Saint Paul makes a reference to being “as one born abnormally” for having come late to the Christian cause. Every month, more than 3 million women in the United States risk having an alcohol-exposed pregnancy . . .

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Addiction epidemic requires resources

In the midst of a beatific vision, the prophet Isaiah is overwhelmed by his own brokenness, crying out, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips.” Those caught in the midst of an addiction can also feel overwhelmed . . .

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Will the UK stick with the EU?

The kindness of the Lord “endures forever,” the psalmist assures this Sunday. The European Union may not endure as currently constituted unless its negotiations with the United Kingdom succeed in convincing the British to stick . . .

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Toyota settles credit discrimination claim

After guiding the disciples to drop their nets to a record haul of fish, the risen Christ calmed a fearful Simon Peter by assuring him that “from now on you will be catching men.” It appears that Toyota’s financing arm ensnared minority buyers in higher priced loans than white buyers. In an agreement with federal . . .

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Homily story of the week

Answering the call

There are times we complain that cell phones are controlling our lives and how we would just like to get rid of them. Yet if they control us, . . .

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Quote of the week

“We have to understand: An attack on one's faith is an attack on all our faiths.”

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Fact of the week

Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world, killing more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

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