“Blessed are the merciful.” Mercy is not weakness; it is restorative courage. In community, mercy refuses disposable people. It makes room for accountability without exile and truth without cruelty.

On Sunday, the Gospel reading is the Beatitudes, one of the most loved and well-known passages of the New Testament. This ...

I’m reading Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship along with our Lenten Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount. I’m not sure when I last spent any time with this Christian classic (25 years, 35 years?).

There's a tendency to wince when people begin to reach back into the deep, dark past to prove a present point. As in, "Grandma always said" or "We're going through the same things Germany did before ...

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson and members of the Schachle family pay their respects Nov. 1, 2020, at the sarcophagus near the entrance of St. Mary’s Church in New ...

Editor's note: This is the second of a series of columns focusing on the Beatitudes. I discovered over the years that one of the major soul-searing questions to be dealt with in spiritual development ...

During his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Leo XIV insists that living the Beatitudes can bring us happiness, bring light to the ...

As our prayer warriors say, stay blessed”. It is only recently, as recent as two weeks ago, that I noticed that in some of my email correspondence with friends, acquaintances and family members, I ...