During this blessed time of the year when Christians all over the world commemorate the life, death and resurrection of our conquering Canaan King Jesus Christ, I want to travel back 2000 years and ...
Jesus is the good shepherd (Jn 10:11,14); he knows, protects and loves his sheep and he willingly laid down his life for his sheep. A priest takes his cues from his Master and strives to be a good ...
“It is Jesus who gives meaning to the life of the priest. Without Him, the priesthood is not understood, it makes no sense,” Cardinal Francis Arinze said this week as he led the members of the Roman ...
Christ is Prophet. Christ is Priest. Christ is King. This three-fold division of the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ has become traditional in Protestant theology. The offices declare the ...
"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’" (John 14:6). This Bible verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel ...
The Gospel evidence is inconsistent. After his arrest, was Jesus brought before a council (the Synoptics) or just questioned by the high priest (John)? Is this session at night (Mark/Matthew, John) or ...
When the plague struck the Italian city of Milan and the surrounding area in the 1570s, St. Charles Borromeo, then a cardinal, became well-known for his efforts to remind people of their faith in a ...
Notice that the tax collector’s humility is steeped in hope. He cannot save himself, but God can. This tax collector summons those twins called grace and mercy. In this man’s humility, a grace given ...
This is Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst’s depiction of Jesus appearing for his trial before High Priest Joseph ben Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin. Van Honthorst lived from 1592-1656. (Courtesy Photo) ...
Although I do not want to call more attention to James Dooher’s June 20, 2019, response (“Women can’t be priests in Catholic Church because Jesus said so”) to Meg Ksander’s letter calling for women in ...