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Back to SearchThe Three Tasks of the Church
Pope Benedict has said that the church has three basic jobs: to care for the poor, to evangelize, and to worship. These three are on clear display in…
17 years, 2 months ago
Render to Caesar
The Gospel for today raises the famously complex question of the relationship between "religion" and "politics." Though there is a legitimate distinc…
17 years, 2 months ago
The Sacred Banquet
One of the most powerful and enduring symbols of God's intention toward the world is the sacred banquet. God wants his life to flow into us and throu…
17 years, 3 months ago
Lessons from the Vineyard
In both the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel of Matthew, we find the image of the vineyard as a symbol of Israel. As Jesus develops this image, we see b…
17 years, 3 months ago
Old Adam or New Adam
Our second reading contains one of the most precious texts in the Christian tradition, Paul's description of the mind of Christ. While the old Adam c…
17 years, 3 months ago
As High as the Heavens
The Biblical manner of dealing with the problem of evil is neither to deny the fact of evil nor the fact of God's existence. Rather, it is to stress …
17 years, 3 months ago
The Triumph of the Cross
We will understand the power of this feast only when we grasp how very strange it is to speak of the cross as a triumph. Paul's great hymn in his let…
17 years, 4 months ago
Fraternal Correction
The command to love compels us to engage in the difficult task of fraternal correction, but it enjoins us to do so carefully, always aware that it ca…
17 years, 4 months ago
The Problem of Suffering
Most of the great religions and philosophies of the world center around the issue of suffering. Stoicism, Buddhism, Platonism all propose different p…
17 years, 4 months ago
Ekklesia
Jesus tells Peter that he will build his ekklesia on the rock of Peter's confession. The word ekklesia means "called out from." To be a member of the…
17 years, 4 months ago