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.
Scripture
Posted inFaith, The Word
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.
Posted inFaith, The Word
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.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
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.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘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.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
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.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
When we receive the Eucharist, we meet Jesus in the past, present and future.
Through the mystery of this sacrament Jesus reveals something inherent about himself and about our life in him.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: You cannot negotiate with the Gospel
Pope Francis delivers his first catechesis after undergoing colon surgery.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The Eucharist is not magic. It is Christ feeding us through fellowship.
Jesus does not magically feed us. He feeds us through fellowship, through the identity and love that flow from it.