Listening to the so-called "super-committee" talk about their failure to achieve a compromise in the Senate the last few days sounds a bit like the first reading in today's liturgy from the book of Genesis: "He made me do ...

The readings from the Mass on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception are replete with images of grace. Choices are given to human persons to become all that God created us to be. The contrast between Eve, the "Mother ...