Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera of Jinotega was forced to leave Nicaragua after accusing a local Sandinista mayor of sacrilege for disturbing a celebration of the Mass by blaring loud music outside the ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

This fixation on, and animosity toward, darkness is partly why I cling to luminescent imagery whenever it appears in Scripture.

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...

It hit me: He is paying the disciples a beautiful compliment, recognizing the good he has seen in them through their shared time together as friends. They are living out God’s will, and thus he is ...

When they saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner”... And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant ...

This is the great sin of the servant who stores his coin in the handkerchief: Paralysis. Struck with the King’s gifts and the ...

I am struggling to smile and nod and accept the message from well-intentioned people, whom I love, that everything will be ...

Pope Francis’ encyclicals have drawn from and lead to this truth: What the world needs is heart—not sentimentality, but ...

It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between ...

Sometimes you have to leave home to find home. That’s the paradox of the immigrant experience, portrayed beautifully in “Brooklyn.” ...

Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” scandalized Italian audiences. But it was a group of Jesuit priests who were determined to ...