Sunday, Oct. 13, is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Wisdom 7:7-11; Psalm 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27. Today’s Gospel invites us to wrestle with ...

So he makes what seems to be kind of a harsh statement: "You have to love God more than father, mother, brother, sister, wife, family, children, or you can't be my disciple." At the very end, he says, ...

For centuries, Christians have debated an important question. Can someone truly follow Jesus without baptism? Some churches ...

As a Church, we talk a lot about making disciples. What we don’t talk a lot about is the central problem facing the Church today: the struggle to live as a disciple. Right now, the Church is rocked by ...

This Gospel lesson is intended to give us hope and encouragement in the face of evil, temptation and sin. The Scripture commentators remind us when we reflect on this Gospel lesson that all the words ...

John 14:6 states: “ Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Further Matthew 3:2 tells us to repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus preached a message that was familiar enough so that those who came to hear him could recognize their religious tradition. At the same time, that message was ...

The late Dutch Catholic priest and spiritual writer Nouwen (The Return of the Prodigal Son) unpacks what it means to be a follower of Jesus in modern society in this excellent posthumous collection of ...

The first generation of Jesus’ followers were Scripture-reading Jews who believed that Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection were fulfillments of prophetic predictions that a messiah would one day ...