Don't you love the pictures we're getting from the James Webb telescope? We might consider them pinhole glimpses of God's view of the universe. Then, when we see how miniscule Earth appears in the ...

"Are you the King of the Jews?" That is one way to ask the central question of the Gospel. All four of our Gospels quote Pilate as asking that question and none of them tell us in what language Pilate ...

Palm Sunday is perhaps the only day when the liturgy has two Gospels. Because of how the liturgy of Palm Sunday developed, the Gospel of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem is read at the start of Mass in ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared during Holy Week, 2008. On Good Friday, millions gather together to read — or if they are lucky, to sing — John the Evangelist’s account of the Passion of ...

Palm Sunday is the only time during the year that a Mass has two Gospels. Because this is “Palm Sunday,” there can be at the beginning of Mass a formal processional entrance into the church, bearing ...

John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual ...