Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not ...

Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...

It is now the 3rd Sunday of Easter and today’s gospel reading comes from John 21: 1-19 about his appearance to his disciples in Lake Galilee. 1 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the ...

According to the Gospels, Jesus foresaw his own death. In the Gospel of Matthew, for example, he shares with his disciples that “he must go to Jerusalem and suffer… and be killed and on the third day ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

Today, the universal Church continues to celebrate the Resurrection of her Lord. The Easter Season is a blessed time for us to recall the Lord’s presence among us and to deepen in our sense of mission ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." The narrow ...

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Jesus Wasn’t Called “Jesus” in His Lifetime, Here’s His Original Name ...