"Friends, I have often said that Lent is a bit like basic training for the military or summer workouts for a football team—it is a chance to get back to..."

"Although most of our parents’s generation knew the Ten Commandments by heart, few Christians today can recite them. The liturgy today invites us to refocus on these timeless commands, which..."

"Scott Hahn refers to these famous laws as ‘our declaration of dependence.’ They teach us how to center our lives radically around God and his demands. They signal our total..."

“How easily can we become fixated with our failures, a rejection by someone we trusted, a mistake that haunts us, and forget that dispite all of our flaws we remain a uniquely valuable person whom God has created and loved”

“Emotions can be a useful guide in our spiritual life. They can show us what truly matters to us.”

"Many people would have discovered internet shopping in the past year or, even if one were to go out to the supermarket in person, goods can be obtained without any..."

“He will be pleased if we try and put in the effort, He will see the good within us, the love within us and He will draw it out. Because really – deep, deep down – that is our human nature.”

"There is surprisingly little in common between St John’s Gospel and the other three. Apart, of course, from the bare facts of Jesus’s life, notably his crucifixion, there are very..."

"Today's Gospel records an act of violence. Jesus goes into the temple and upsets the money-changers' tables. He drives the cattle and sheep out with a whip, along with the..."

“So, maybe Jesus was making a point about changing old laws for the new covenant”

"In cleansing the temple and announcing its destruction, Jesus shows that he himself is the new temple, the authentic dwelling place of God on earth. In the measure that we..."

“Today we are called to recognize and act on the abuses we see whether our own or those of others. Some of those abuses are our failings in our care for creation.”

“Where is your passion? How does zeal for God consume you?”

“Our relationship with God must be that of a child to his parent, one of mutual love, respect and a desire for the family’s good, with no thought of personal loss or gain”

“Beginning with our own self-examination, we can work together to change our economic choices and systems to reflect the equal dignity of all persons as created in God’s image”

"What is the best way to communicate law? Written law has its limitations, because we are all familiar with the concept of the “loophole.” There always seem to be methods..."

“In my work of raising awareness here in Brazil, we help women…understand and recognize that their bodies – just like Jesus’ body – are sacred temples of God.”

"Every week in churches throughout the world, baskets of money will be carried up the aisle and presented to the priest who presides at mass. There are many variations in..."

"The Gospel for today from St. John is sometimes called 'The cleansing of the Temple'. It is not just about the upsetting of the traders in the Temple: the money..."

"The ten commandments are part of a story, a story of slaves being set free and learning -- or not learning -- to live like free people. Quite often, during..."

"The Liturgy of the Word today presents us with two partial but ultimately unsatisfactory ways of experiencing God. And by implication it contrasts these with the way we as Christians..."

"The talking is finished. The diplomacy is ended. The war has begun. A war that many throughout the world and in our country, myself included, find difficult to justify. Yet..."

"The Temple, for Old Testament Jews, was everything. But St. Paul, who lived for many years in Jerusalem and knew the rituals of the Temple very well, told the Corinthians..."