Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News. 12That is why I am suffering here in prison” ...

Peter tells us “Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good”(1 Peter 4:19, ESV). What does this verse look ...

I had a wedding a few weeks ago and the couple was very impressive. As can happen when one is a bishop, I was grateful that another priest conducted the marriage preparation for this couple. As a ...

When was the last time you thought about how much Jesus suffered physically – and emotionally – in the days before His crucifixion? In Mark 14 (AMPC), Jesus (the night before He would die for our sins ...

Lent, including Holy Week, should be a time of renewal and growth in our spiritual lives. Maybe we can find a new lesson in a tried-and-true Lenten devotion, one that holds great depth: the Stations ...

Pope Francis told the estimated 800,000 young people praying the Stations of the Cross together at World Youth Day in Portugal on Friday evening that Jesus can open the windows of the soul and wipe ...

Stained glass windows in the cathedral depicting Jesus, his disciples, and an angel at Gethsemane as the Roman soldiers arrive to arrest him. (Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash.) The Gospel for the ...

A Saint (Mark?) Reading, a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1470 (Wikimedia Commons). Why does Jesus rebuke Peter, admonishing him to “Get behind me, Satan”?

Playing Jesus meant a world of torment for Jim Caviezel, who stars in Mel Gibson's ferociously violent "The Passion of the Christ." Caviezel dangled nearly naked on a cross in bone-chilling winds ...