Terry Wildman hopes his new Indigenous translation of the New Testament will help Christians and Indigenous peoples read it again in a fresh way.
Scripture
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Refusing the Covid vaccine is the ultimate sin of omission for Catholics today
How can Christians, any people of good will, put their focus on protecting liberty rather than life?
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God calls out corruption in society and in ourselves
All three texts elucidate the power and importance of living in ways that honor ourselves and others.
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Want to know Jesus? Welcome your neighbor
We are all called to model the principles of the Gospel, and when leaders fail in this regard, it is important for the rest of us to step up.
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Selfless love needs service (and sometimes sacrifice)
Today’s readings show us the risks that may come in the form of humiliation, persecution and death.
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The Word became flesh: the healing power of touch
The first reading and the Gospel reveal God’s power to renew us during and especially after periods of suffering.
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Catholics’ views on abortion are deeply scriptural, as well as historical and philosophical
Christian love of neighbor, natural law and God’s eternal law all figure in the desire not to murder.
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What Tolstoy and the Gospel can teach us about trying (and failing) to love
The Israelites are quite like us. They intend to offer a response that is steadfast but their own humanity, under the siege of sin, fails them.
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‘The Chosen’ dares to imagine stories about Jesus and the disciples that aren’t in the Gospels. It’s a revelation.
Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus has fearsome power to open the Scriptures to us and the women and men who follow him are people in whom we can find traces of ourselves. It helps me love the Lord like I never have before.
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In the Assumption of Mary, Christ transforms creation. We are called to do the same.
Through us, as through the Virgin, Christ intends to touch and transform creation, to bless it and to make it holy.