Notice that the tax collector’s humility is steeped in hope. He cannot save himself, but God can. This tax collector summons ...

Holy Week is the most sacred time in Christianity. From Palm Sunday to the victory of Easter seven days later is what defines the faith. There is no Christian religion without the resurrection of ...

The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and we need some holiness and evangelization in the Church today. We need the Holy Spirit to nurture holiness in ...

The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into hell for ...

• Life has no meaning or purpose without Jesus. This realization is what brought me to faith in Christ. My life without Jesus ...

After Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, did he “Descend into Hell,” as millions of Christians recite during weekly church services in The Apostles’ Creed? Nearly 2,000 years of Christian tradition ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

Every Holy Week, streets across the Philippines transform into open-air stages for one of the country’s most unique and deeply rooted Catholic traditions: the “Senákulo,” a dramatic reenactment of the ...

As 2023 draws to a close, we recall major events that have happened this year in our church and world. In Rome, Catholic clergy and laypeople gathered at the Vatican Oct. 4-29 for a synod to discuss ...

Too many pastors are failing to live holy lives, while many ordinary Christians are clueless about the core point of Jesus’ ...