I WAS really humbled by Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa's closing remarks when he presented Zimbabwe's 2003 national budget to Parliament last Thursday. After chronicling the country's economic ...

As the Church continues to walk through Ordinary Time, she presents the call and the struggles of following the way of God. Case in point, this weekend in the Bible Readings from Mass, we hear the ...

The first lesson today is about a prophet, Jeremiah, and about prophecy, and the Gospel lesson is also about Jesus as a prophet and his prophetic work. We might think these lessons don't apply to us ...

The Prophet Jeremiah wrote his Book of Prophecies and also the Book of Lamentations about the desolation of Jerusalem and the Exile. The times in which he lived and prophesied are described in 4/2 ...

"Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem" by Horace Vernet, 1844. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia/Creative Commons) (RNS) — In the Catholic weekday liturgy, we are currently hearing from Prophet Jeremiah, who ...

With the arrival of Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III upon the scene of history, a new stage in human defiance of God set in. It was a resurgence of the spirit of Babel. Men sought for a universal ...