by Matthew Becklo . March 27, 2020 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . March 1, 2020 .

We enter once more into the very holy season of Lent: a time of preparation; a desert time; a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; a time to return to the basics. And so how wonderful that the Church gives us, for this first Sunday of Lent, a passage from…

by Andrew Petiprin . January 31, 2020 .

by Andrew Petiprin . January 22, 2020 .

by Matthew Becklo . November 1, 2019 .

by Fr. Steve Grunow . October 31, 2019 .

by Dr. Tod Worner . October 7, 2019 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . August 18, 2019 .

Our readings for today develop a theme that is uncomfortable. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous. Jesus’ word is meant to burn things up, to reduce things to cinders, to clear things out. A get-along attitude is never what Jesus is calling for. I know that we are uneasy with this idea, but the Bible isn’t. To love is to will the good of the other. Therefore, to love necessarily involves passionate opposition to what works evil in the other. True love destroys the false forms of order and community in order for the true community to emerge.

by Chris Hazell . June 21, 2016 .

by Elizabeth Scalia . May 23, 2019 .