Most Popular
Saint Luke, the Artist
by Fr. Michael Cummins . October 18, 2019 .
Stay and Fight!
by Chris Boehmler . October 23, 2019 .
The God of the “Little Ones”
by Dr. Tod Worner . October 28, 2019 .
How St. Monica Can Help Your Child Return to the Church
by Brandon Vogt . August 26, 2016 .
Understanding Christ’s Humanity and Divinity
by Joe Heschmeyer . May 2, 2018 .
FREE Daily Gospel Reflections from Bishop Barron!
by Word on Fire . November 9, 2016 .
Transubstantiation: An Interview with Dr. Brett Salkeld
by Matt Nelson . November 12, 2019 .
A Mass of Comfortable Familiarity and Ardent Longing
by Elizabeth Scalia . November 7, 2019 .
What Makes Hardened Atheists Believe in God?
by Fredric Heidemann . February 19, 2018 .
Prayer and Pride
by Bishop Robert Barron . October 23, 2016 .
The entire point of religion is to make us humble before God and to open us to the path of love. Everything else is more or less a footnote. Liturgy, prayer, the precepts of the Church, the commandments, sacraments, sacramental—all of it—are finally meant to conform us to the way of love. When they instead turn us away from that path by devolving into a source of pride and pomposity, they have been undermined. Jesus' famous parable about the prayers of the pharisee and the tax collector from this Sunday's readings illustrates precisely this danger of coopting religion for the purposes of our ego.
