(RNS) — In the wake of the recent mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, and the ongoing plague of gun violence that costs more than 100 lives a day in America, I have been reminded of the Bible verse ...

There is a very poignant moment in Scripture that gets little exegesis, it seems, but it touches the deepest nerve of a people in mourning for the loss of the character of their nation. Like our own.

"I ask myself: today we Christians who know the faith, the catechism, who go to Mass every Sunday, we Christians, we pastors are we content with ourselves? Because we have organized everything and do ...

In a well-known scene in the Gospels, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, and, famously, Lazarus is the only person in the Gospels for whom Jesus wept. This first book of the award-winning Thoenes’ ...

Jerusalem, the Pope added, is also where ‘the Church was born, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples gathered in prayer with the Virgin Mary and sent them forth to proclaim to all peoples ...

March 31 (UPI) --Catholic leaders in East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank compared Gaza's suffering to the crucifixion of Jesus in an Easter message as protestant leaders also decried Israel's ...

Jesus' message and ministry were about reconciliation. After his baptism in the Jordan, when the heavens were again opened and reconciled with earth, Jesus went north to Galilee. There he assembled a ...