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Take Up Your Cross and Follow: Our 40 Days Mirror Christ’s Stations of the Cross

If Lent’s not going well, don’t worry. We see the perfect description of the “journey” of Lent every Friday in the Stations of Cross.

This Sunday, Christ’s Transfiguration Starts the Transformation of the World

The Apostles would have known exactly what the transfiguration meant. Do we?

This Sunday, Don’t Be Like Adam and Eve; Be Like Jesus

This Sunday the Gospel is all about three different encounters with the devil: First, in the Garden of Eden; second, in the desert — and, third, the one you just entered into this Lent.

This Sunday, Their Enemies Were Monsters. How Can They Love Them?

For me the Gospel about loving your enemies is theoretical. The Christian heroes in Congo will hear the readings in a totally different way.

This Sunday, Follow the Law, Says Jesus, But First Comes Love

Jesus says something very relevant to the discussion about how to welcome people into the Church in the Gospel for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A.

This Sunday, the Deep Psychology Behind ‘Salt’ and ‘Light’

Jesus said what Carl Jung later noticed: The world is a battleground and we are our neighbors’ source of light.

This Sunday, A Popular Historian’s Book Shows How the Beatitudes Changed the World

2019 book "Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World" never mentions the Beatitudes, but traces their evidence everywhere.

This Sunday, Jesus Came to Us; Now He Wants Us to Come to Him

After all of the hoopla and anticipation, after the big reveal of Jesus, what follows? Crickets.

This Sunday, Follow the Star With Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict XVI considered the story of the Magi, the star, and the Baby Jesus the master story for faith in the 21st century.

This Sunday, Is the Church Too Proud to Beg?

We all have neighbors who are in the thrall of great evil. Do we bring this to Jesus urgently, insistently, refusing to take No for an answer?