The resurrected Christ comes to the fearful disciples with a calming message in the gospel for this Second Sunday of Easter: “Peace be with you.” An agitated and long-divided Korean peninsula could use a calming message of peace as well but as world . . .

“Do not be afraid” is the message that “one like a son of man” delivers to the narrator of the Sunday reading from the Book of Revelation. Female tourists worldwide have been frightened away by a recent series of high-profile assaults on women . . .

Such was the power of the witness of Saint Peter and other early followers of the risen Christ, the reading from the Acts of the Apostles tells us this Sunday, the crowds “even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats” so that Peter’s shadow . . .

“Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed,” the risen Lord responds to Saint Thomas, who needed to see the evidence with his own eyes before believing that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Scientists are relying on a $2 billion . . .

"In the gospels . . . women have a primary, fundamental role . . . . The evangelists simply narrate what happened: The women were the first witnesses.”

South America has 339 million Roman Catholics and Africa 186 million, a total of a little over 6 times the number of Catholics in the United States and Canada combined (85 million).