This Sunday's lectionary reading for Year A, Epiphany 3, is Matt 4.12–23. The epistle is 1 Cor 1.10–18, where Paul gets into ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

"Here is a group of men who witnessed something otherworldly and magical, but still they are being asked to leave everything for their faith. Even to give up their lives for it … there is still the ...

This Sunday many churches will read the story of Jesus calling four fishermen to follow him and become his first disciples ...

In his new book, Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church (Ignatius), Pope Benedict XVI shows clearly the real relationship between Christ and His Church by way of His earliest followers. Despite what ...

and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” I won’t embarrass the priest who underlined this point to great effect during ...

When Jesus calls to a group of fishermen at the Sea of Galilee, they leave everything behind to follow him. The story is simple, but powerful. What was it about this man and his invitation that ...

On a movie theater screen Nov. 18, a group of 12 men formed a circle and prayed. Dressed in first-century clothing, their arms around each other’s shoulders, they appeared eager and apprehensive at ...