The Gospel reading today provides some guidance for this, and it feels somewhat serendipitous that it would fall on the feast ...

The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

I spent the evening riding with Bill Reading, a volunteer with the Niagara Gospel Mission, as he checked on unhoused neighbors during Code Blue conditions in Niagara Falls.

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...

Benedict noted in one Angelus address: “The Beatitudes are the transposition of the Cross and Resurrection into discipleship.

Episcopal Church USA leaders call on Christians to emulate the late priest, civil rights activist and legal scholar.

A funeral Mass was celebrated for John L. Allen Jr. on Monday in Sant’Eugenio basilica in Rome. The legendary Vatican beat reporter and Church affairs analyst died Thursday, January 22, two days after ...

John the Baptist, the prophet who dared to tell the truth about power, had been seized and silenced. The machinery of empire ...

Sunday Reflections. 3rd Sunday of Year A. Together, we are stronger ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew ...

What are you looking for? Those are the first words we hear the adult Jesus speak to potential followers in the Gospel of ...

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings 1: Isaiah 8:23—9:3; Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14; R. The Lord is my light and my salvation.; 1 ...

In these early weeks of “ordinary” time, we are being introduced to Jesus and the beginning of his public ministry. Matthew’s ...