This Sunday’s second reading from Revelation resolves the tension raised in last Sunday’s reading about the gap between ...

Israel's mission -- to be God's instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth (see Isaiah 49:6) -- is fulfilled in the Church. By the ...

Like most people, Msgr. Joseph Prior watched the election of Pope Leo XIV with great interest. He noted how the people in Rome represented the diversity of the universal Church, a theme reflected in ...

The bells of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church rang out around 1:30 p.m. Thursday in celebration of Catholicism’s new leader — American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost — who chose the name Pope Leo XIV. “I ...

Elsewhere St. Paul told the Corinthians to contribute ... is witnessed by the Bible and in the writings of the Apostles, St. Barnabas (c. 100 A.D.), St. Ignatius (107 A.D.), also St. Justin ...

In the Acts of the Apostles, the kerygmatic discourses of the Church leaders — Peter, Paul and Barnabas, James — place the events of the Passion, Resurrection, Pentecost and the missionary ...

On Easter 5 in Year C, we find that once again the Sunday lectionary points us towards the reading from Acts as an important ...

Known as the “Apostle of the Nations”, Saint Paul was one ... Paul’s First Missionary Journey Together with Barnabas, nicknamed “Son of Encouragement”, Paul embarked on his first missionary journey in ...