The crisis with the Catholic Church is agonizing for all Catholics. It's agonizing whether one is more conservative or more liberal or for the majority in the middle. What I don't think the Church ...

Some of them, as Jesus mentions in Matthew 23:5, display their distinction by their clothing, widening their phylacteries and lengthening the tassels on their garments.

They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. They love the places of honour at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues.” (Matthew 23,5-6) In my travels around the world as ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, March 18, 2025, which is the Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, March 17 Daily Gospel, March 15 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according ...

Although I don’t propose to deal here with the Greek derivation of “phylacteries,” a subject to which I devoted a column last September 2, Mr. Lerner raises an interesting question.

I WAS taught a lesson this week. Two lessons, actually. And they both grew out of the readings from last Sunday’s lectionary. “Now, priests, this warning is for you, the prophet Malachi thundered.