Sunday, July 30, is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52 or Matthew 13:44-46. The Gospel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From medieval weaponry to the fortress walls of Jerusalem, “Kingdom of Heaven” is rich with historical detail. But in Ridley Scott’s tale of a young ...

A baby is held out to Pope Francis to be blessed as the pontiff is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. (Credit ...

(See Mark 3:14-15, Matthew 4:12-17 and 13:1-52, Luke 4:14-29 and John 1:35-51.) The Third Luminous Mystery is quite expansive: “the call to conversion and the proclamation of the Kingdom.” All of ...

The kingdom of God is both present reality all around us and a vision that we work toward in the future. The time has come. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Good News! That was Jesus ...

We often think of heaven or of the kingdom of God as so inaccessible here on earth that we think it only exists in our dreams, in our fantasies or in our desires. It cannot be here and now. And ...

There have been surprisingly few films about the Crusades, and the handful that do exist have been ambivalent at best about the legacy of those wars. So when Scott set out to make his own movie about ...