These little stories (together with the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes) are the best known of all Jesus' words. It is a measure of the value which the Church places upon them that every parable ...
"I suspect we all have a ways to go toward defining our faith experience, because we’re all stuck with experiencing our own ...
Images like bread, light, sheep, water and world suffuse the text providing rich food for meditation. John presents no parables and relatively few stories of healings. Instead, Jesus gives several ...
At a time when the defining characteristics of Western culture are causing significant harm, Wim Wenders’s film offers a ...
Two articles were recently published by Al Barrett, Rector of Hodge Hill Church in east Birmingham, arguing (slightly ...
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Advent 3 in Year C is Luke 3.7–17, and it follows closely on from last week's reading; verse begins 'He therefore said to the crowds...' which some English ...
What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the ...
The church is in need of a rebrand. Not "your church" or "my church" per se, but the "the church," as an institution.
Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their word in a Church that reaches out that it may be leaven and light in ...
including "files labeled with names of female children who attended church." Some of the images were made from child pornography and others were computer-generated, the warrant states. Watch ...
The Holy Father noted that “Lucy is a woman” and that her holiness shows the Catholic Church “how unique are the ways in ...
In Mark 10:45, Jesus spoke of the nature and purpose of his ministry. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but ...