All Souls Day
In his encyclical Spe Salvi, Pope Benedict XVI asks: “what sort of hope could everjustify … that, on the basis of that hope and simply…
Twenty Ninth Sunday – Year C
God wants to draw all people to Himself. He involves us in the process in our coming toHim and bringing others to Him. St. Thomas…
Twenty Eight Sunday – C
Ten lepers call to Jesus from their distance: “Master, have pity on us” (Luke 17:11-19).Of course, Jesus pitied them. Their disease could actually be what…
Twenty Seventh Sunday – C
Have you felt overwhelmed when given new responsibilities? St. Timothy may have feltthat way when St. Paul designated him to be the leader of a…
Twenty Sixth Sunday
The Church’s insistence on social justice begins with Jesus, has been articulated by itsSaints and Popes, especially since Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum in 1891.…
Twenty Fifth Sunday – C
Why does God want us to ask for things? Does God change His mind when we keepasking, similar to the way that children change their…
Holy Cross
Yves Congar, O.P., has written that “The relationship [between God and us] is nowaffected through God humbling Himself to come to us in the form…
Twenty Fourth Sunday – C
Probably every one that cares about being a good person feels guilty about the ways inwhich he or she has not been good in the…
Twenty Third Sunday – C
Should we hate anyone? Today’s Gospel, Luke 14:25-33, lines up a whole list of peoplewe might hate: “If anyone comes to Me without hating his…
Twenty Second Sunday – C
Because of Jesus’ ongoing challenges of the emphasis on the rules of the Pharisees,some people think the commandments to love God and to love our…