“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Mt. 10:34). The bloodshed and pain of a sword – metaphorical or literal […]
Twenty-five years after her death in 1997, on September 5, 2022, Catholics honor St. Mother Teresa’s profound and lasting legacy in the Catholic Church. The best way to respect leaders – in this case, one […]
Readings: • Wis 9:13-18b • Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 • Phmn 9-10, 12-17 • Lk 14:25-33 I once read a column by a young Catholic who expressed frustration with the saying, “Love the sinner, […]
Blessed Stefan Wyszyński was the primate of Poland from 1948-1981 during one of the pivotal periods of her history. Love and Social Justice: Reflections on Society was created from a series of essays written by Wyszyński […]
Strangely, this parable of the Good Samaritan, familiar to us from childhood, makes no appearance in the three-year Sunday cycle of the lectionary of the Ordinary Form of the Mass – although it does appear […]
It has become fairly common in these post-Covid times to distinguish very carefully between science and scientism, or between science and The ScienceTM. The distinction generally goes something like this: Science is a method for […]
Dr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the study of the New Testament […]
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Vatican City, Aug 21, 2022 / 07:30 am (CNA).
Christians are measured by how well they follow Jesus Christ and the Gospel, not by their own ideas and self-sufficiency, Pope Francis said on Sunday.In his Angelus mes… […]
Readings: • Is 66:18-21 • Ps 117:1, 2 • Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 • Lk 13:22-30 Over the past few weeks we have heard, in the readings from the Gospel according to St. Luke, about Jesus […]
For atheists, the Old Testament is a collection of ancient myths, and the New Testament an inconsistent and plainly fraudulent record presented as objective history, the work of many lying hands shamelessly proffered by the […]
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