Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 5th Sunday of Easter (Year A); Acts 6:1-7; Psalms 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; First Peter 2:4-9; John 14:1-12 I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life “What does Jesus Christ...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 3rd Sunday of Easter (Year A); Acts 2:14, 22-28; Ps 16; I Pet 1:17-21; & Lk 24:13-35 What a disappointment! They thought they’d found the Messiah. But he’d been...
Read MoreThe atheist philosopher of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said: “if Christians want me to believe in their redeemer, they need to look more redeemed.” He was drawing the wrong conclusion from a perceptive...
Read MoreTax collectors have never been popular. But in Roman Palestine, they were particularly hated. It was bad enough that they collaborated with the foreign oppressors. It’s understandable that the Jews felt about the same thing...
Read MoreThere are many ways to get a point across. But some ways are a lot more effective than others. Have you ever had a teacher who drones on and on, heaping fact upon fact and argument upon argument? Usually, a day or two later,...
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