More than a mere secretary for God, a prophet was charged with speaking the very words of God to His people, whether they wanted to hear them or not. Although we can infer a fair amount about Isaiah’s ...

The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10,000+ citizens living in Medina at that time. About 45-55% of the total ...

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ‘Muslim’ Hebrew, ...

Jewish and Christian scriptures explicitly teach the faithful to care for the poor, the marginalized and the strangers, ...

The Scriptures are filled with accounts of people acting in faith, especially when logic or common sense would have told them ...

This is in spite of the fact that most people have become poorer, or at least seen their real income stay static, since the financial crisis of 2008. As the saying goes, “There’s nothing surer: the ...

The Mass schedule at St. Charles Catholic Church, 31 Cherry Hill St., is as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 7 a.m.; Saturday at 4 p.m.; and Sunday at 9 a.m. The Sacrament of ...

Last week’s sermon was based on the book of Isaiah, where the prophet Isaiah encountered God in the Temple. Isaiah was ...

Isaiah looks the Lord (Isaiah 6, 5-8), published in 1877 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My ...

In the first week of May, 1994—my sense of smell had been permanently altered. I could no longer smell anything clearly—not because my nose had failed, but because the stench of death had overtaken ...

Wood engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 - 1872), published in 1860. The prophet Isaiah by Michelangelo in the old book Michel-Ange, by F. Koenig, 1888, Paris The prophet ...