Within the Beatitudes, we read, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matthew 5:9). We can ...

Pope Francis preached tolerance for others, sometimes to the point of breaking with Catholic Church orthodoxy and surprising ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

The Beatitudes respond to the natural desire for happiness. This desire is of divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw us to the one who alone can fulfill it." ...

This formula has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus pronounces blessings on the poor, the humble, and the persecuted in the Beatitudes at the ...

Although I’ve spent most of my life as a lapsed Catholic, and have generally regarded ... and so too is Jesus. Behind these Beatitudes and Matthew 25 there is a message that is Jesus’ own.

“Suddenly I feel old,” someone said recently. He may have been in his 70s, but what he meant was that he had recently lost his long-time partner, and about the same time he was having life ...

The Vatican announced his passing on Easter Monday at 7:35 a.m. local time. He died at his residence in Casa Santa Marta.

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts longtime peace activist, Pax Christi leader and Catholic Nonviolence ... challenges us to build a "Beatitudes Movement" that brings ...

The death Monday in Rome of Pope Francis, age 88, brought to end one of the most controversial pontificates in recent history ...