More than 22,000 pilgrims attended Pope Benedict XVI's general audience in St. Peter's Square Nov.16. The Holy Father, whose catechesis focused on the first half of Psalm 136 during his previous ...

I was raised on God. That sounds rather strange to say, but from early years I heard stories of one particular God who some call “The God of the Bible.” This Father in Heaven loved me, gave me a ...

Psalm 108, which we just heard, is part of the sequence of psalms in the morning prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours that has been the theme of our weekly catechesis. At first glance, it has one ...

During the summer prepare to preach from I Kings, the early half of a Hebrew book. Another summer, from II Kings. To us this double book relates history; to the Hebrew believer it consisted of ...

I have long been fascinated by the beautiful, cosmic terms Paul uses throughout his letters to describe the place of Jesus in human history. Take, for example, Ephesians 1:9-10: "And [God] has made ...