This Sunday many churches will read the story of Jesus calling four fishermen to follow him and become his first disciples ...

and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” I won’t embarrass the priest who underlined this point to great effect during ...

The Gospel (Mat 5:1-12A) presents Jesus’ Beatitudes, outlining the character needed for entry into God’s kingdom. By ...

This Sunday many churches will read the story of Jesus calling four fishermen to follow him and become his first disciples ...

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation. One Sunday when my son was a baby, a woman approached me (Seana) at church. I dreamed of changing the ...

Contrary to the bogus claim that Jesus wants us to be really nice and loving to everybody, he instead was speaking constantly ...

We’re in Year C of the liturgical cycle, and that means the Gospel of Luke is the one we’ll hear most often at Sunday Masses this year. Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, ...

Easter for faithful Christians is not about bunnies and the bloom of spring. It is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ as something infinitely greater. How important is it? In what is likely the ...