Tag: Jesus Christ

Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night and discovers His powerful message. In this episode, Tom Hoopes pits the enlightenment against the light of Christ. He compares Descartes’ famous axiom, “I think, therefore

Jesus turns water into wine. By performing this miracle, He gives us a loving and joyous sign of His divinity. He signals the queenship of His mother, Mary, and the high calling

In this episode of the Extraordinary Story, we meet St. Peter, and learn all about the importance of brotherhood and community. Click here to see all episodes of The Extraordinary Story on

This week on The Extraordinary Story, we get a drum roll and a symbol clash as Jesus arrives on the scene. Then right away, he faces off alone with the devil. We

John the Baptist lived a radical holiness. Rather than being quick to judge and slow to forgive, he was uncompromising with himself and generous with others. His example gives us a path

A letter to a college student who didn’t go to World Youth Day.

Sacred Heart statue, St. Benedict Church, Atchison, Kan. The Sacred Heart used to bother me. I found the pictures of Jesus with his heart hovering in front of his shirt weird. I

“Without the Church, Jesus would be at the mercy of our imagination, our interpretations, our moods,” Pope Francis said on Jan. 1. Undoubtedly that is true. We rewrite him (as in The Da

(Photo: Flickr Yuya Sekiguchi) St. Paul famously said that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, our faith is in vain. This Sunday’s Gospel shows that the same thing can

By Fr. Matthew Habiger, OSB | A moral theologian, former president of HLI and noted expert on Natural Family Planning, Fr. Habiger is also a monk at St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison,