Sunday, May 5, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern ...

"I didn’t know how much I needed them." That’s what a high-level CEO recently told me about the male friendships that had faded out of his life. It was only after an unexpected guys’ night out came ...

Sunday, March 9, is the Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year A, Cycle II). Today at 10 a.m., Pope Benedict XVI will say Mass at the Church of St. Lawrence in Piscibus in Rome. The International Youth Center, ...

“No one has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13 What do you look for in a friend? Do you look for someone who is trust worthy, understanding, someone who ...

Jesus never abandons, coerces or blackmails anyone when they stray, rather, he patiently waits and is "our greatest and most faithful friend," Pope Francis said. "He remains at the door of the heart.

There is probably enough room in Ignatian spirituality for an understanding of Jesus as a friend as well as an appreciation ...

Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’But because I told you this, grief ...

When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples ...