I was lifting weights a few weeks ago in a workout that felt a little harder than normal. The next day, I experienced intense lower back pain. I’ve pulled muscles before and figured the injury would ...

Have you ever been in a crowd of people? The type of crowd where you’re shoulder to shoulder, shuffling forward, very aware that your personal space has become nonexistent? In Luke 8:40-56, this was ...

Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Apostles contains Peter’s preaching about Christ as healer from sin and its effects as a consequence of his passion, death and resurrection. The sermon was occasioned by ...

Readings can be found here. In Jesus’ day, people believed in the presence of spirits. These beings, although intangible, were just as present and alive and active as any visible being. Some of these ...

‘Let us pray for courage as we hold the hurting places in our hearts before Jesus's loving gaze,’ said Benedictine Father Boniface Hicks, before solemnly processing the Eucharist around the stadium.

Some episodes in Scripture are more than ordinarily relatable to our lived experience. Take, for instance, this Sunday’s Gospel stories about a 12-year-old child who is near death and a woman who is ...

Before his weekly Sunday Angelus, the Pope noted that the kingdom of God announced by Jesus Christ is manifested in the integral healing of man. Commenting on the Sunday reading of St. Matthew the ...

There are four marks of wounded healers. Now over 200,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, almost 70 times more than those who died in the September 11 attacks and more than the ...

NICOSIA – On his second day in Cyprus, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the island’s Catholic community and said the only way to truly recover from the tensions that still divide the country is to ...