In choosing Jesus we also choose the cross and there is real death, and the pain involved here cannot be softened or ...

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On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

This Sunday’s celebration of the great apostles Peter and Paul is a celebration of the Church.

Peter is then told to put on his cloak. The robe in Scripture is often equated with righteousness. Thus the instruction of ...

Gently but firmly correcting their perception of “success,” Jesus invites them to remember what is truly important.

Jesus’ threefold command to Peter wasn’t just a moment of personal redemption — it was the moment Christ entrusted him with ...

The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

The Holy Father, speaking in English, expressed his “sincere condolences” to “families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters, who were at the summer camp, in the disaster caused by ...

We sometimes have high experiences with God on Sunday, but on the other days of the week we don’t give much evidence of that.