I attend a Bible reading group. We read scriptures from the lectionary that many churches use. Synagogues in the time of ...

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

As the popular maxim goes, “in their door, out ours.” And so, the Sacred Heart can attract people since the devotion seems to ...

When facing despair, exclusion and disappointment, do not be afraid to turn to Jesus and pray for the healing power of his love, Pope Leo XIV said.

In the first centuries of Christian life, bishops wrestled with the Greek in this puzzle -- whether God the Father and Jesus were "homoiousios" (of similar substance) or "homoousios" (of one substance ...

The event was organized by the Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy with the theme taken from St. John’s Gospel: “I have called ...

Pope Francis’ 2024 encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is packed with testimonies from the saints of prayer and devotion ...

Spain was the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to equate marriage with same-sex unions.

Freud or God — which way, Christian? Every generation must defend the Gospel anew and protect its young people from Satan’s ...

Begin with this Friday (the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) and Saturday (the Optional Memorial of the ...

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