Today we consider the second part of Jesus second instruction about prayer in Luke 18. The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector reminds us that God hears the prayers of some surprising ...

"When we are not open to the newness of the Word of God, when we are not obedient to the Word of God", " the Holy Spirit is trapped". But the Word of God "does not end, because it is alive in the ...

John Dickson is Founding Scholar of the Centre for Public Christianity, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. When Sir Edmund ...

It’s hard to be humble. St. Benedict (480-547), called the “Father of Western Monasticism”, wrote a guide to humility that is still popular today. The guide is a chapter within Benedict’s Rule, which ...

They say there are no more prophets. The Rabbis agreed that the last biblical prophets were Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. Many people would like to obtain prophecy nowadays, but we see from ...

In the Gospel reading for the Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, from Luke 14:1, 7-14, Jesus speaks two parables. The first deals with honor, embarrassment, humility and exaltation. In the NRSV, ...

Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...