The Gospel of the First Sunday of Lent always deals with Jesus’ temptation in the desert, but Mark’s account is relatively sparse (a mere two verses) and devoid of details about the temptations. It ...

We can not blame God for our sins. Jesus Himself was sent out into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. We all face temptations; some are small, and some are ferocious. When we overcome large ...

On the First Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis warned of “three widespread and dangerous temptations” that the devil uses to separate us from God and divide us from each other. In his Angelus address on ...

Many distractions in this life can take a person away from their true path. Even as I put these words together, I think about everything unrelated to my writing. I think about my career and need to ...

Christians must deny the urge to posture, which comes from a place of insecurity. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. For a long time, I have feared that my fellow ...

Do you notice anything different—indeed quite distinctive—in St. Luke’s account of Christ’s temptation? Following his baptism, our Lord has been led into the desert by the Holy Spirit. He is quite ...

The recent talk of a social register and whether to give the poor money or not made me ponder Christ’s temptation and my own witness of poverty. Let’s begin with a time Nigeria looks back to as boom ...

(RNS) — For three weeks, the Trump administration has sought to demonize Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was sent to a prison in his native El Salvador because of what a (since fired) ...