Editor's note: Bishop Thomas Gumbleton gave this homily Sept. 1. As I mentioned to you at the beginning of introducing the Scriptures, Jesus has been teaching us over the last 10 or 12 Sundays various ...

July 5, 2026 – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading s: Zechariah 9:9-10; Psalm 145, R. I will praise your name for ever ...

Each year, on Feb. 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is observed, marking 40 days after Christmas. This day commemorates Jesus’ presentation to God in the Temple, in accordance with Jewish ...

What do all major world religions have in common? One answer came from the late Joyce Foster, a Benedictine oblate who spent the last years of her very long life writing a book on the virtue of ...

Atlanta-based pastor Boone (Your Wife Is Not Your Momma) here instructs readers on living humbly, like Jesus. Humility, says Boone, is "one of the most important words that has defined the nature and ...

In sixth-century Europe, unprecedented chaos gripped the dying remnants of the Roman Empire. As Europe entered a period of political chaos and moral decline, a young Christian by the name of Benedict ...