by Bishop Robert Barron . March 29, 2020 .

The great Lenten readings for Cycle A move in a kind of crescendo from thirst, to blindness, to death—all metaphors for spiritual dysfunction. This Sunday’s Gospel deals with death through the story of Lazarus who, after four days in his tomb, represents someone who is totally sunk in sin,…

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . March 13, 2020 .

by Robert Mixa . February 25, 2020 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 20, 2020 .

In this new video commentary, I reflect on my recent visit to the tomb of St. Paul. As I knelt and prayed on that spot, wearing the full liturgical regalia of a successor of the Apostles, I had a certain feeling of unworthiness. But then as I prayed further, I…

by Fr. Billy Swan . February 18, 2020 .

by Elizabeth Scalia . February 13, 2020 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 4, 2020 .

I write these words on the airplane taking me home from my first visit as a bishop ad limina apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles). This is the pilgrimage, required by canon law of every bishop, to pray at the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul and to…

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 4, 2020 .

Escribo estas palabras en el avión que me lleva a casa desde mi primera visita como obispo ad limina apostolorum (al umbral de los apóstoles). Esta es la peregrinación exigida a cada obispo por el derecho canónico, para rezar en las tumbas de San Pedro y San Pablo y para…

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 2, 2020 .

There is a tendency, I’m afraid, to flatten out and sentimentalize the meaning of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. We see it as just a charming tale of a little child being entrusted to the protection of God at the beginning of his life. But there is…

by Elizabeth Scalia . January 23, 2020 .