Weeds are on my mind for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, tis the season to get to the flowerbeds, and weeding is not ...

Here is the full text of a working translation of the homily of Cardinal Baldassare Reina on the third day of the Novendiales ...

Considering the April showers, we should receive some beautiful May flowers, right? However, I’d like for us to give ...

With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist ...

Jesus senses the weight of this — and that ... That extreme, total, exhausting gesture of the sower made me think of Pope Francis’ Easter Sunday, of that outpouring of blessings and embraces ...

In a world besieged by the violence of impatience, the death and resurrection of Jesus show us how to enter into the patience that brings forth hope — a patience that Pope Francis learned during his ...

His battered black shoes showed wear from prayer and intercontinental ministry last year when Pope Francis gave them to Noel ...

When we plant good seeds in our life, our heart hears, understands, and believes the Word of God and acts accordingly, The parable of the Sower as told by Jesus cites the story of a farmer ...

Some of these sayings are familiar. We know them from Matthew and Luke - Jesus said, "I have come to cast fire on the earth." Or "Behold, a sower went out to sow," and so forth.... Others are as ...