Faith in God’s Love and the commandments to love give us the power to conquer the world. And our reward is peace, the peace Christ gave to us.    

“After the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene is the most important woman in the New Testament,” says Dominican Father Thomas Michelet, in an interview in National Geographic (March 2012).

YOU’D THINK that Christians would have figured out by now a way to celebrate the central mystery of their faith—Christ’s Resurrection—on the same day every year. But this issue has been a source of contention almost from the start.

Jesus was a different kind of messiah. His “triumph” quickly turned into condemnation and execution, and the only sign of royalty in sight was the placard nailed mockingly on his cross.

I WAS SUPPOSED to attend the baby shower of a co-worker, when the phone rang in my office. It was my doctor calling with test results that confirmed that the baby I was carrying.

THE GOSPEL of John says that "some Greeks" wanted to see Jesus. These folks were "God-fearers": non-Jews who showed up at major Jewish festivals.

"BY GRACE you have been saved through faith." Oh, if only the church had listened more carefully to those words from the Letter to the Ephesians!

WE DON'T often hear talk of the angry Jesus who drove the money changers from the temple, but journalist Bill Moyers reminds us of this Jesus in a speech he gave a few years back.

THERE ARE people who would like to see the Ten Commandments posted in public places like courthouses and state capitals.

THE READINESS to sacrifice in the readings for this Sunday could characterize as well John of God, the 16th-century saint whose feast the church celebrates later in the week.