Paul Senz, Catholic News Service

Every year on Palm Sunday, we hear the narrative of the passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This year, we read from the Gospel...

One of the challenges we Catholics face is the way in which our liturgical calendar almost becomes like white noise in the background. There is...

The author of the Letter to the Hebrews wrote, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid...

Lent is a time of sacrifice. We strive to unite ourselves with the suffering of Jesus, walking with him in the desert, agonizing with...

Summer usually brings with it a certain slowdown. This is no different for school and parish life. School is out, religious education classes and...

The veneration of relics is a fundamentally biblical practice; it is not some sort of innovation in the centuries after Christ. On the contrary,...

From the first moments of creation, God declared that "it is not good for the man to be alone" (Gn 2:18). Human beings long...

Catholic News Service In many ways, the Gospel of Mark is quite mysterious. Even a superficial reading often leads to many questions. A deeper reading...