The apostle to the Gentiles proclaimed the gospel to a multicultural and embattled world very much like ours. Here are some things we can learn from him as we enter more deeply into a time of persecution.

We live in the…

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and pleasant it is

when brothers dwell in unity!

“Catholics,” said G. K. Chesterton, “agree about everything.  It is only everything else they disagree about.”  In other words, those who belong to the Catholic faith have in common…

1 John 2:6

Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

St. John begins his account of the miracle at the wedding in Cana by noting (John 2:1) that it happened…

Hebrews 3:16

Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Woody Allen once remarked that he wasn’t afraid of dying, he just didn’t want to be there when…

2 Corinthians 10:4

For the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

Joseph Stalin once sneered, “How many divisions does the Pope have?”  He was a materialist and supremely confident that the only real things…

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance;
for from it flow the springs of life.

Years after our culture has absorbed the elementary lessons of hygiene in the physical and environmental realms, we remain perfect babes in the wood when it comes…

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

One common form of idolatry is hero worship.  There’s nothing wrong with having heroes, of course.  The human soul is made…

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

One of the things that marks the Catholic faith off from the more elaborate and esoteric religious systems…

Last time, we began talking about the problem of how a Catholic should respond to deliberate acts of desecration of the Eucharist. We discovered that Scripture shows a curiously double-sided response from Christ and his Church which I sum up…

Hebrews 12:28-29

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.

Yesterday’s Scripture spoke of receiving Christ’s peace…