One can imagine how good it must have felt to Jesus, after a long day of walking, to have his feet anointed with oil.

Some say today people have lost the sense of sin. The insights of psychology have led people to understand their behavior in ways not limited to good and bad.

FORGIVING PEOPLE WHO'VE hurt us is the toughest job there is. And God should know. God's been in the forgiveness business for ages.

"The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law," blogged Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony on April 18, 2010.

Outside Johannesburg stands the Voortrekker Monument, which commemorates the Boer exodus into the South African hinterland, and in a sense marks the beginning of the South African system of racial separation and oppression, apartheid.

When it came to getting to church on time, Sylvia and Bob were the champions. They were usually among the first to show up for the 9 o'clock Mass on Sunday. They always sat in the same place near the front, right on the aisle.

We ask the living God to show us mercy for the wrongs we have done.

"Your sins are forgiven." The ordinary time gospel readings return to Luke with a story of amazing forgiveness--and we hear a similarly remarkable story in 2 Samuel.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?