In case you have not heard, Pope Benedict XVI resigned. Nowadays, to choose a successor they gather all of the Cardinals under 80 from around the world and fly them to Rome to choose a new Pope. But ...

Palm Sunday just passed and Easter is upon us. We know the scriptural accounts. We've heard them many times. But this year, we might look for something more — the rest of the story. When Jesus first ...

"Lord, fix your gaze on me and tell me what I must do; how should I lament my mistakes, my sins; what is the courage with which I must continue on the path You have first travelled". Vatican City ...

The gospel reading [for April 18] is a double-header. We get two stories in one. Both stories are about the apostle Peter, and they take up most of Chapter 21 of the Gospel of John. Scholars tell us ...

Jesus chooses Peter to be the leader of the Apostles because he finds the Spirit in him. Peter is in many ways an unlikely candidate because of his volatile personality and lack of conviction in a ...

When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Peter grabbed his sword and cut off the ear of Malchus, the high priest’s servant. But Jesus told him, “Put your sword into ...