Making excuses or canceling plans can be tempting, even too easy. When it comes to our relationships with God, we often have ...

'Happy are you when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.' ...

Today’s readings: Jeremiah 31:7-9 ... get a deeper understanding of the miracle recounted by Mark in today’s gospel. As the story unfolds, we notice that the ones who really were blind ...

Today’s readings: Wisdom 7:7-11 ... the young man we encounter in today’s Gospel is no Solomon or Aquinas. Approaching Jesus, he asks: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal ...

Helmut Hubener opposed Hitler, based on his Mormonism, and was the youngest political dissident executed in Nazi Germany.

“Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother,” Jesus says (Matthew 12.50). And, as if to ...

But it’s still a lot more elaborate than what went before it and continues still: the prayer board. This sits near the ...

In today's Gospel reading, we encounter a woman who does just that, exclaiming to Jesus, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!" This is one of several beatitudes found in ...

To follow Jesus by abandoning everything that can weigh us down in our search for God: that is the call of today's Gospel ... Further reading: Sunday reflection: The couple as Christ and the ...

Today, too often, some perceive missionaries who leave their Church to carry the Gospel far away as figures ... would say similar things. Further reading: 'I came here to be evangelized' In ...