This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s The Chosen: Special Easter Issue. For a deep-dive into the wildly popular series ...

His appearance today was unannounced but not unexpected as Swiss Guards were posted around the square, a sign that the pope ...

Did you know that the Valley of the Fallen, just outside Madrid, Spain, is home to the tallest cross in the world? The impressive structure stands a remarkable 492 feet ...

Elsewhere in the Bible, Simon Peter is also called Cephas (or Kephas). Cephas is from the word for ROCK in Aramaic, the language Jesus and the Apostles commonly spoke. In John 1:42, Jesus renames ...

393 A.D. "Simon Peter, the son of John, from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, brother of Andrew the apostle, and himself chief of the apostles, after having been bishop of the ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, April 13, 2025, which is Passion (Palm) Sunday. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, April 12 Daily ...

For Lent, we should reflect on the Seven Last Words of Jesus. In Luke, Chapter 23, Verse 34, while being crucified, asked God; "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." ...

YOU might hear today referred to as “Spy Wednesday”, but what does that mean and why do some people call it that? The name ...

It is a blessing to be a leader who can mix truth with grace. Indeed, a good leader mixes truth with grace to gain more followers! Jesus is our great example of this! And the Word was made flesh and ...

Whoever the Beloved Disciple at the Last Supper is, on that retreat I was being invited to take that place—to be the Beloved ...

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