In building a biography of Jesus, we began last month by charting the years in which he lived. Now we move to Jesus’s family. But you already know Mary and Joseph from the Christmas story. What else ...

Jesus had a family tree. Do you know yours? A reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent. “Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar ...

When bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones began writing Jesus, Our True Friend: Stories to Fill Your Heart With Joy, her new picture book, she didn’t set out to write a book about friendship. But, she ...

Every Christian sooner or later has to ask the question, "Who was Jesus really?" And we ask this in our age in a special way because we are very historically oriented. We are modern, or perhaps ...

Find today’s readings here. Both the first reading and the Gospel today give us examples of some tortured reasoning. In the first reading, from Wisdom, the “wicked” take aim at the “just one,” and ...

Faithful followers of Jesus do not listen to his teachings, examine his actions and debate mercy and empathy. They celebrate it. They bask in it! They know that if it were not for empathy, there would ...