In the Church, we are made children of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- the God who makes known His name and His ways ...

Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the ...

Today’s liturgy invites us to reflect on the mercy and patience of God, who calls us to conversion and offers us ...

Lent should bring us face to face with those unfruitful parts of our life that prevent us from a productive relationship with God. Thank goodness for more chances!

What Jesus is saying is that is easy to focus on the sins of others, while failing to discern our own need for repentance and mercy. Before God, we are all beggars; all of us have sinned and fallen ...

Seeing so many downed trees in western North Carolina reminded me of a tree described in the Bible. It is in a parable Jesus tells about a vineyard owner who wants to cut down a fig tree (Luke 13: ...

During his address, the Pope reflected on this Third Sunday of Lent’s Gospel reading about the barren fig tree, drawing ...

Sunday of Lent year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 13:1-9 Some people told Jesus about the Galileans ...