Today’s Gospel is about the Beatitudes, one of the most profound teachings by our Lord Jesus Christ as a means of having a closer relationship with our Divine Creator. The Beatitudes also has another ...

One man’s mountain is another man’s plain. In Luke (6:12-17, which precedes today’s Gospel) Jesus goes up a mountain to spend a night in prayer. The next morning he picks his Twelve Apostles. Then, ...

The Sermon on the Mount, the setting for the Beatitudes in today’s gospel, was said by St Augustine (354-430) to be the charter of the Christian life. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) believed that it ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

I once heard a story that used to make me laugh. "Computers are so powerful that pretty soon the country will be run by one computer, one man, and a dog," the teller says. "Really?" says the hearer.

Cambridge, MA. It is the start of the new semester at Harvard, and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy — even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60+ inches of snow ...

The eight beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount reveal the path from selfishness to holiness, Pope Francis said at his general audience Wednesday. Speaking via livestream due to ...

Today's Gospel Matthew 5:1-12 tells Catholics all over the world (including 88 million Filipinos) of the Beatitudes. In all Masses today, Catholic priests shall focus their sermons in the Liturgy of ...

The Pharisees are often used to represent the pinnacle of religious achievement. They were scrupulous in keeping the Law of Moses. In the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7), however, Jesus ...

It is here that Jesus is said to have uttered such phrases as “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” and “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God.” Known as the ...