St. Paul is blunt about this fact: Unless Jesus is risen from the dead, “your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). Unless ...
Today, O’Flaherty works to correct misattributed and out-of-context C. S. Lewis quotes, a role that increasingly seems never-ending, as Lewis quickly became one of the most misquoted writers. It ...
That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...
This is the great sin of the servant who stores his coin in the handkerchief: Paralysis. Struck with the King’s gifts and the demands he makes, the servant has taken on a false humility and decided he ...
The Roman Empire held Caesar to be the one true king, the lord of the known earth and a god to whom religious allegiance was ...