16+ hour, 1+ min ago  (817+ words) Bill Renje lives in Locust Grove, GA, with his wife Amy and their three children. He retired from full-time ministry in 2025, after serving as the director of LifeChange Concepts from 2019-2025, and with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes from 2011-2019. Prior to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (217+ words) Second, we are to read the text in light of the living Tradition, which involves the saints, the Magisterium, and the Liturgy. What have the saints or the Church taught regarding this passage or theme? Does the Liturgy of the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (538+ words) I recently came across an old woman begging at the roadside in the intense Manila afternoon heat. I was struck because she was not trying to make eye contact with the people passing by, as beggars usually do. Her money…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (294+ words) When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew to Galilee. Danger drove Jesus into a land that historically had known great danger and grave sorrow. "Why? St. Matthew tells us that when John the Baptist fell into Herod's…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (427+ words) Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me.(Ps. 40:7) When we offer "sacrifice" or "oblation" or carry out any other otherwise objectively "good" work that does not happen to be the good work that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (715+ words) Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer, OP, recently coauthored the book How to Be His: A 33-Day Dedication to Our Eucharistic Jesus with Fr Jesse Maingot, OP, and coauthored a book on St. Elizabeth with Julie Enzler and Dr. Anthony Lilles, called…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (265+ words) Among the spiritual senses of Scripture, the allegorical is the Christological sense in the broadest way imaginable. It involves the mystery of Jesus but also that of the Trinity, Mary, the Church, the theology of salvation, and all the various…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (587+ words) On the feast of the Epiphany, a month before he sadly and mysteriously resigned the papacy, Pope Benedict XVI preached: The Shemites, known in Latin as Semites, formed the Jews and other Middle Eastern peoples. Japheth's descendants populated areas to…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1159+ words) We speak often of Mary's Fiat, and rightly so. Her yes stands at the center of salvation history. But Scripture gives us another yes, one that is quieter and almost hidden in the background. It is the yes of a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (915+ words) Where did John baptize people? What was the Baptist's first line in Sunday's Gospel? " The Baptist, then, was not standing at the crossroads warmly greeting the pilgrims, saying, "All you need is faith alone, and you are saved! All are…...