Sunday Readings

The greatest failure of the Church in our time is not the abuse crisis, it isn’t the lack of catechesis, and it’s not the liturgy. Our failure to follow what Jesus commands in the Gospel reading this Sunday, the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, is at the root

What does it look like to render to God what is his? It looks like the crucifix.

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet is enormously hopeful ... or uncomfortable.

We don’t have to wait to see how we will treat Jesus when he comes.

Are we honest with God, or do we say “Yes, sir!” whether or not we really plan to help?

At the end of life, the kingdom is like a banquet. But first we have to build it ...

Forgiveness is hard. Here are two helps — and a practice run for eternal judgement.

Christ delivers one of his most difficult commands this Sunday: Correct others.

Peter has real power. So does Satan. Peter’s is greater, because it is Christ’s.

Too often we act like we are the master and God has to beg scraps from us.

Peter facing the waves stands for each of us, individually, and for all of us in the Church.

Think of the multiplication of the loaves as the “live action version” of the parables.