On Judgment Day, "we will not be able to depend on titles, credits nor privileges. The Lord will recognize us if we in turn will have recognized Him in the poor, the hungry, the indigent and ...

On the day that the church celebrates all the saints of history, Pope Francis told Sweden's small Roman Catholic population that holiness is not shown so much in extraordinary deeds but rather in ...

VATICAN CITY — The beatitudes are the most direct path toward happiness and holiness, Pope Francis said during Mass on All Saints’ Day. He urged the congregation to imitate Jesus in walking the ...

“Beatitude, in my opinion, is a possession of all things held to be good, from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want,” according to St. Gregory of Nyssa in The Lord's Prayer: The ...

When I was a graduate student at Duke, my professors David Steinmetz and Roland Murphy were blazing a new trail into the history of the interpretation of scripture, hacking away at the conceit that ...

Of all of the subgenres of Christian writing, apologetics is one of the hardest to get right. If you're writing for an audience that's already Christian, they don't need convincing of the existence of ...

Though they are fundamental to Christian devotion and practice, the New Testament Beatitudes can become so familiar to the faithful as to seem almost bland. Writing with a barely banked passion for ...

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?).

The beatitudes are promises that God has made to humanity. Some of these promises are fulfilled in every age; mourners are comforted each day. Others will only find fulfillment in the fullness of ...

Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was a revered teacher and healer and mystic. But, in addition to being all that, Jesus was something of a jokester. If you don’t think so, consider the parable that ...