Good Friday is terrible, but it is also dramatic and full of passion. Easter Sunday is triumphant, radiant, and full of song.

The Apostle Paul says in Romans 12:5, “For we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” Paul compared the church to a human body, in which each part has a ...

I have preached 1 Corinthians 12 more times than I can count. I have preached it at staff retreats with lukewarm coffee and chairs arranged in a circle that no one wanted to sit in. I have preached it ...

24. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you ...

The Pope’s reflection at the general audience was inspired by the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution Lumen ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

The risen Christ is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature ...

(RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion. The church was not silent Saturday (Oct. 11) near Chicago, as ...

Sunday, June 2, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Mass readings: Exodus 24:3-8; Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26. On this solemn feast, we ...

At Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis last night, Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart spoke to a captivated audience of 40,000 at the National Eucharistic Congress about the healing power of the real ...

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