View from the Ambo/Mercy With Teeth

A few weeks ago, Pope Francis formally announced an Extraordinary Holy year starting with the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary on ...

CHRISTIANS, to the Paschal Victim offer sacrifice and praise. The sheep are ransomed by the Lamb; and Christ, the undefiled, hath sinners to...

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty Kin...

From the Office of Readings for Holy Saturday: Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and s...

This week , we hear the great analogy of the grain of wheat. Jesus uses this image to describe what He is about to do by dying, that He will...

This weekend , we hear perhaps the most well-known and oft-quoted verse of all of Scripture: “For God so loved the world that He gave His on...

A few years ago, I read about a social scientist's observations of school children on a playground. He realized that the playground had ...