Confronting the crossJaymie Stuart Wolfe
Holy Week is just around the corner, which means the biblical descriptions of Christ's Passion are, too. Whips, nails, a crown of thorns: the Gospel accounts are so familiar that it can be difficult ...
The very heart of the church's yearFather Robert M. O’Grady
Forty days of Lent to prepare, and 50 days of Easter to celebrate the three hinge days that link Lent and Easter -- the Sacred Paschal Triduum. And these three great days are sandwiched into the intense ...
Join Our Lifeline of HopeMaureen Crowley Heil
During what was a very full trip visiting mission sites in Malawi -- especially those devastated by Cyclone Freddy -- we witnessed some of the worst destruction that Mother nature could provide. Whole ...
The 'hour' comesScott Hahn
Our readings today are filled with anticipation. The days are coming, Jeremiah prophesies in today's First Reading. The hour has come, Jesus says in the Gospel. The new covenant that God promised ...
Politicization of migration policy is causing a migrant standstillBishop Nicholas DiMarzio
The politicization of migration policy along party lines has led to a complete breakdown in the legislative process. The bipartisan effort of the past several months seems to have ended, at least at this ...
For those who avoid meat anyway, is there another Lenten Friday penance?Jenna Marie Cooper
Q: Now that we are in Lent, most Catholics I know are doing "fish on Fridays" to conform to the fasting and abstinence requirement. But if I typically avoid meat or eat fish most days anyway, should I ...
Listen, for heaven's sake!Bishop Robert Reed
Each year in Lent we read an account of the Transfiguration of the Lord, a story found in all three of the synoptic Gospels. Each Gospel telling shares the common experience of the three disciples, Peter, ...
Sunday without a priestFather Robert M. O’Grady
Libraries contain some books that are well-used, some that are occasionally opened, and others that gather a bit of dust. In the liturgy library, there are books like those. Among the dust gatherers, ...
A Lesson from the MissionsMaureen Crowley Heil
Though the mountains fall away, and the hills be shaken, My love shall never fall away from you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the LORD, who has mercy on you. (Is 54:10) On March 12, 2023, ...
Living in the lightScott Hahn
The Sunday readings in Lent have been showing us the high points of salvation history -- God's covenant with creation in the time of Noah; His promises to Abraham; the law He gave to Israel at Sinai. In ...