In the last days Jesus predicted coming pestilences (Matthew 24), this worldwide pandemic is clearly a pestilence that is preceding His coming. God is using this virus with a three-fold purpose: (1) ...

Sunday, May 9, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Mass Readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17. Welcome to the Sixth Sunday of Easter. We are getting very close to ...

Pope Francis greets visitors as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience June 5, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of Pope ...

I sit with Brother Martin Gonzales, over sixty years a monk and reflecting on the nearness of life’s end. We are at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey on a day when the perfume of magnolias ...

Year after year, as students of mine worked their way through the Divine Comedy, they found it strange—magnificently strange at times, at times disturbingly so. One feature of Dante’s poem that ...

For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

The earliest Christians believed that Christ, although no longer present in the flesh, remained among them. Many words described this presence, but one of the most common was Spirit. New Testament ...