If you dig a little deeper, throughout the Old Testament and New Testament, wisdom literature is filled with concise ...

When was Jesus born? When did he die? What was his socioeconomic class? How did he fit in the religious, political and ...

Last week, the gospel in Luke 2:22-40 was read and heard by many. The story was about the presentation of the Baby Jesus at ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, February 8, 2025, which is the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, ...

Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4). Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to ...

In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus seems to come down on the side of the broadest possible application of the love ethic. And by emphasizing a particular type of love – the gut-wrenching kind – ...

When a young couple marries, they have all sorts of dreams of how wonderful life will be, maybe even how easy it will be, to ...

14 All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers. It should be quite evident that the Gospel of Luke ...

Three weeks into Trump 2.0, and I’m still haunted by JD Vance’s condescending smirk at the National Prayer Service.

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

Noting the shepherds’ openness to receive the news of the coming of Jesus, the Pope’s catechesis emphasized that it is 'the ...

In this episode of John Dear's "The Nonviolence of Jesus" podcast, Dear outlines 10 essential points about the nonviolence of ...