This Sunday’s readings offer practical, mystical and spiritual resources that the new pope will have to rely on and remember ...

Now, in this Easter season ... celebrate the truth of Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life: “Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb” (Revelation 7: ...

Perhaps this is because Easter is the best ... not a “yes/no” reply. Jesus’s playfulness, jumping in unexpected directions, may be one reason among many that we also encounter the Good Shepherd as the ...

The Kingdom remains solid because we are now its foundations. The Holy Spirit, whom we receive, sends us to carry the message ...

St. Augustine calls this life the ‘Before Easter’ season — a time of labor, suffering and praise — preparing us for the ...

Father in Heaven, as Church and individuals, may we always be attentive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit ...

Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and ...

It is one thing to say, "Love one another." But here, Jesus takes it to the extreme: "Love one another as I have loved you." ...

The Gospel tells us that what is of God will always draw us toward greater unity among all people and creation and of all in ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican ...

The first Church council, the Council of Jerusalem we hear about in today's First Reading, decided the shape of the Church as ...