Today’s Gospel is about the Beatitudes, one of the most profound teachings by our Lord Jesus Christ as a means of having a closer relationship with our Divine Creator. The Beatitudes also has another ...

Our Sunday gospel today is about our Lord Jesus Christ who ministered to the Great Multitude and gave them something more spiritually meaningful than the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses. The ...

One man’s mountain is another man’s plain. In Luke (6:12-17, which precedes today’s Gospel) Jesus goes up a mountain to spend a night in prayer. The next morning he picks his Twelve Apostles. Then, ...

During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis Pope Francis began a new series of catechesis on the eight beatitudes from Matthew’s Gospel, saying the beatitudes are a message for all of humanity.

As we search for meaning in the “blessings,” we must let them transform us. The yellowing notebook for my college philosophy of religion class contains this plaintive inscription: Sunday school was ...

Is it my oddness or oldness, I wonder, that separates me from the legions of "believers" who today dismiss the beatitudes (Sermon on the Mount in Mathew, Sermon on the Plain in Luke) as quaint ...

“Accursed be the poor in spirit: for they are whiners and takers. Accursed be the meek: for they will never be heard on Fox News. Accursed be those who hunger and thirst: for they should get a job.