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[A number of years ago, I wrote an article in which I tried to briefly state the essence of what I learned concerning authority in the Church f...

[A number of years ago, I wrote an article in which I tried to briefly state the essence of what I learned concerning authority in the Church f...

[A number of years ago, I wrote an article in which I tried to briefly state the essence of what I learned concerning authority in the Church f...

The gospel for this feast of St. Mary Magdalene, John 20: 1-2, 11-18, offers us a glimpse into the very hinge of human history. The hinge o...

[A number of years ago, I wrote an article in which I tried to briefly state the essence of what I learned concerning authority in the Church f...

[A number of years ago, I wrote an article in which I tried to briefly state the essence of what I learned concerning authority in the Church f...

In Matthew 8:28-34 we read of two demoniacs who are “so savage that no one could travel by that road.”After their encounter with Jesus liberate...

“The kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 10:7). This is the message every disciple of Christ, in every age, is meant to carry into ...

This passage we are prayerfully pondering this afternoon falls within a context of St. Matthew’s record of Jesus’ powerful deeds of healing and...

Having immersed ourselves for fifty days in the mystery of the resurrection and contemplating over the last three weeks the mysteries of Pentec...

The gospel for this Feast of Pentecost places us back “on the evening of the first day of the week” (Jn 20: 19).In truth, since the resurrectio...

In order to summarize and draw together all that we have reflected on during these days of Lent and Easter, yesterday we ‘set up’, you might sa...

Visitors to the Eternal City, to Rome, will always encounter at least one disappointment.While moving about the city, they will eventually come...

Today we are encouraged by the gospel (Jn. 17:20-26) to reflect on ‘foundations.’“Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they...

The French Dominican, Fr. Yves Congar, would claim that throughout Christian tradition two essential ‘principles’ show themselves over and over...

The readings put before us for these last few days remaining before Easterand the celebration of Pentecost this Sunday are distinct.Through Thu...

Jesus assures his disciples, “I have told you this so that you might have peace in me.In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I h...

I want to make an attempt at getting at the reality of epiclesis—the prayer of the Christian and of the Church for the outpouring of the Holy S...

So yesterday we spoke of the Church as that place where those who are dedicated to the Word of God are gathered together by the ‘breaking of th...

The Acts of the Apostles provides us with what might be called a “narrative ecclesiology” (Joseph Ratzinger, Called To Communion, 41).That is t...