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It makes all the sense in the world to finish a Gospel with the resurrection of Jesus. To see Him walking around, being with His...

I still remember the feeling inside me when I heard the priest say to the entire Church, ‘Jesus didn’t resurrect Lazarus.’ It bothered...

One cannot help but notice the subtle shift of a Mary quietly supporting the ministry of her son, to a Mary who in many ways has become...

To be aware of God’s love is quite the gift, and we might even say, that this awareness is the beginning of every saintly life. And...

The Church is built on forgiveness; it must be, because it was built on Peter. And Peter, as all collective memory agrees, was a man who...

There are few hearts so open, so revealed to us in Holy Scripture, like the heart of Mary Magdalene. In the brief passages that bring her...

Our language and history have not always been the nicest to Thomas. In the minds of many, Thomas is a man who could not take a leap of...

Looking back on the last century, with all of the accomplishments in biblical, archaeological and linguistic scholarship that have...

The Church of this millennium will not thrive because we know our Catechism. The Church of this millennium will not endure because we...

It is easy to see why many are disturbed by the idea of relics. As it is presented to them, the Church invented such things to gain...

The freedom that we humans possess is a strange thing. We can look in the eyes of poverty and injustice, falsehood and absolute evil our...

The story of Jonah and the whale is one of the most beloved of children’s stories, but in my opinion, for all of the wrong reasons. As we...

The story of Jonah and the whale is one of the most beloved of children’s stories, but in my opinion, for all of the wrong reasons. As we...

Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town,...

In the Gospel of Mark chapter 5 we see two touching episodes of life restored, but what is so interesting about these two episodes in...

The encounter of the risen Jesus with the disciples by the Sea of Galilee seems so normal. There is no crowd whose needs demand to be...

The encounter of the risen Jesus with the disciples by the Sea of Galilee seems so normal. There is no crowd whose needs demand to be...

We have all watched a movie with a mysterious plot, only to find that the solution to the problem was actually evident throughout the...

The call to come back to life is not something that an apostle of Jesus Christ normally thinks applies to himself. It is rather the call...