Learn more of the history of this ancient basilica dedicated to St. Michael.

Christ encounters the Pharisees who question him. "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

Sometimes a single line of Scripture leaps off the page and won’t let you go. For me, “Bear ye one another’s burdens” is one of those.

Usually, the feasts of the Church celebrate Christ and the Saints, but today we celebrate the Cross.

In the Epistle of St. James, the Holy Apostle commands us: "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only" (James 1:22). St. James is teaching us that, if we are going to really and truly live as Christians, we cannot just come to Mass on Sunday, hear God’s Word, and then just leave without making a solid resolution to live the Gospel life of charity.

After healing ten lepers, the Lord sends them to the priests. So, we who need Christ's healing show our hearts to the priest in Confession.

St. Augustine explains the lesson of the Good Samaritan and how Jesus ministers to us by the Sacraments.

A meditation for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost.

The Holy Ghost gives His gifts for the building up of the Church.

We live in the glow of baptism and the radiance of the Eucharist, yet the shadow of sin hovers near.

Fr. Scott Haynes “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to...

The Second Sunday of Lent presents the scene of Christ's Transfiguration. Learn from the Church Fathers theological truths of this mystery.

The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Romans, sets before us a stark and sobering contrast: two ways of life, two masters, and two ultimate destinies.

Our Lord’s words in Matthew 7:15–21 are neither gentle suggestion nor passing remark. They are thunder on the mountain: “Beware of false prophets.” 

In the Book of Exodus, God says to Moses: “Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.”— Exodus 33:20 Here we are confronted with a great mystery: the face of God — the infinite majesty of the divine Being — is hidden from man.

Romans 6:3–11 is a spiritual roadmap. It teaches us that Christianity is not behavior modification, but death and resurrection. To be baptized is to die to the slavery of sin and be raised with Christ as a new creation.

May we be among those who follow Him closely, who hunger for His Word, and who feast on the Bread of Life. And may we become, in turn, bread broken for others—bearing His compassion to a starving world.

Learn the Biblical wisdom of avoiding gossip, slander, and backbiting. St. Monica explains.

There are words in Scripture that do not so much whisper as thunder. They summon us, like a trumpet sounding in the wilderness, to a higher life—the life of grace, the life of the Cross, the life patterned after the meek and suffering Lamb.

The magnitude of divine glory so far surpasses the darkness of this life that, in light of it, every sorrow is light, every injustice momentary, and every cross worth bearing.