'Happy are you when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.' ...
In this Sunday's Gospel Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of God is near. Msgr. Joseph Prior explains Jesus' model of loving self-sacrifice as the way to manifest God's reign today.
per the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2246: It is a part of the Church’s mission “to pass moral judgments even in matters related to politics, whenever the fundamental rights of man or the ...
Perhaps today’s Gospel inspired St. Charles, who was born into a noble family. Jesus tells a leading Pharisee that if he has a banquet, he should “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind ...