The Bible is a love story, the story of God revealing his love for man and of man’s response to that love, making the Bible a source of moral reflection. This love story begins with God creating Adam and Eve and inviting them to freely join him in a covenant of holy love. Morality—being good […]Read more

The following is Part III of a message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the LIX World Day of Peace. Read Part I here and Part II here. An essential service that religions must render to a suffering humanity is to guard against the growing temptation to weaponize even thoughts and words. The great […]Read more

The following is Part II of a message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the LIX World Day of Peace. Read Part I here. When we treat peace as a distant ideal, we cease to be scandalized when it is denied, or even when war is waged in its name. We seem to lack […]Read more

The following is Part I of a message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the LIX World Day of Peace. Read Part II here. “Peace be with you!” This ancient greeting, still in use today in many cultures, was infused with new life on the evening of Easter on the lips of the risen […]Read more

This ancient greeting, still in use today in many cultures, was infused with new life on the evening of Easter on the lips of the risen Jesus. “Peace be with you” ( Jn 20:19, 21) is his Word that does not merely desire peace, but truly brings about a lasting transformation in those who receive […]Read more

St. Joseph gives us a wonderful example on how to live Advent in preparing for Christmas. God chose him to be Mary’s virginal husband and to safeguard her perpetual virginity with his life. He sensed that Mary’s physical virginity represented something more, a spiritual virginity, a sinlessness that entailed Conception, that God kept a perfect […]Read more

Scripture prefigures Mary in many ways, beginning with Eve, the first woman and “mother of all the living.” God cursed the Serpent who conquered Eve, saying: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; she shall crush your head, and you shall bruise her heel” (Genesis 3:15, […]Read more