Sept. 11, 2001, drove preachers of the Good News to tackle the classic questions of theodicy: If God exists, why is there evil? Why does God allow the barbarous destruction of innocent people? How can ...

Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both approaches seek. What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two ...

A movement spreading across the country since the 2016 election evokes a church. Its teachings? Civic engagement. By Courtney E. Martin Ms. Martin is the author, most recently, of “The New Better Off: ...

The royal official from Capernaum gains Jesus' ear as much as the blind man on the road or the lepers. Desperation reduces us all at the threshold of faith. A sick child moves the official to seek out ...

Preaching the Word of God is a true calling and should be undertaken with total effort and the utmost seriousness.Some people preach for selfish reasons or personal gain. But Gospel preaching is only ...

In his homily at Sunday Mass on the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Francis emphasized Jesus' crucial place in creation, history, and the Church. "The attitude demanded of us as true believers is that ...

The two miracles in this Gospel passage are so tightly woven together, we might think of them as a single miracle that leaps from the woman to the little girl through Jesus. Mark’s Gospel, thought to ...

How often the Scriptures call upon us to stay awake, to stay alert and to pay close attention. Look at these words from Hebrews 2:1, “Therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard ...

Have more sermons become selfies? Are you hearing more homilies composed of anecdotes about the preacher himself and an increasingly familiar cast of his friends and family? This is unfortunate.