Even so devout a Jew as Saul of Tarsus gave his full approval to stoning to death a man he considered to be promoting heresy…

We only see people and things in their true nature if we take the trouble to really look, with an open mind. The Sanhedrin looked on the face of Stephen, and it seemed…

There’s encouragement in this story of Jesus walking on the water. We do not know what God will do, to heal our Church of our present malaise…

Seeing Saint James chairing the first church Council in Jerusalem surprises many people, who think mainly of Peter as leading the church after Christ…

“We must obey God rather than any human authority.” How can we distinguish fortitude from stubbornness, courage from love of confrontation? Is there any way to be sure that our convictions are from God…

Our Lord wants all people to come out into the light that he sheds. People who live by the truth should come out into the light, and live the values he taught us…

Even though most of us like the light, the gospel notes a sense in which people seem to prefer darkness to light.

Catherine’s advice: “Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.”

His resurrection rolled away more boulders than the one blocking his tomb; it also flung wide the doors to the future…

The apostles went back to their roots, to resume their work as fishermen. But their lives had been transformed…

God’s plans are enmeshed in human existence, and are being carried out across the sweep of history…

Emmaus suggests that if we travel life’s journey with others, sharing our faith and our fears, Christ will be with us..

It is notable how the Easter stories convey the gradual recognition of Jesus, after his resurrection…

The act of divine power that raised Jesus from the dead was already predicted in an inspired psalm of David, a thousand years before…