Sunday, May 5, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern ...

Two weeks ago, we heard about how the Israelites "grumbled" against Moses and Aaron, for good cause: they were starving. So God gave them manna from heaven, with the stipulation that they were to ...

The relationship of Christianity with the law has often been conflicted, stemming from the apostle Paul’s complex teachings regarding the Torah and Jesus’ own words, like those from the Gospel of Mark ...

Over the past 30 years there has been a lively renewal of interest in the quest of the historical Jesus on both scholarly and popular levels. What had been mainly the preserve of liberal German ...

MANY are startled when they read the account of the beginning of the church in Acts. Comers were joining in multitudes. These days, some just go to church services as a duty while others attend out of ...

The scales of justice cannot solve everything, especially when it comes to stopping a cycle of evil vengeance, Pope Francis said. "Evil knows revenge and if it is not halted, it risks spreading, ...

There is a pattern in Jesus’ speech in our Gospel today (Matthew 5:17-37). Four times he utters a variation of the phrase “It was said…” and follows it up with “But I say to you….” What he then ...