This Sunday's lectionary reading for Year A, Epiphany 3, is Matt 4.12–23. The epistle is 1 Cor 1.10–18, where Paul gets into ...

COMMENTARY: The unity of Jesus’ disciples will be the greatest testimony of the truth of Christ’s coming and ongoing presence ...

If you are a regular reader of America’s daily Scripture reflections, you may have noticed that I have had some fun over the past few months at the expense of Jesus’ disciples. Their pretty consistent ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

James Tissot, "The Appearance of Christ at the Cenacle," 1886-1894. (Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns by James Keenan, S.J., on contemporary issues in moral ...

Would you consider yourself a “disciple” of Jesus? One of my favorite faith blogs this week posed the question: Would we be better off resurrecting this biblical term rather than continuing to use the ...

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It has a history to it, but like all of these things it’s also taken on a history of its own. In eastern Christianity the third Sunday following Easter (Pascha) is dedicated ...

Jesus, or Jesus Christ, was a 1 st century preacher and religious leader who is revered in Christianity. According to Christians, Jesus is considered the incarnation of God, and his teachings are ...

As Jesus called the first disciples in this Sunday's Gospel reading, so he also calls us into discipleship. The challenge is ...

Jesus taught his disciples to live like he did because loving and cherishing each person is the only way to happiness and to ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...