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February 04, 2024

Sunday Gospel reflection: Parsing the devil’s use of ‘us’

January 28, 2024

“What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth?” (Mark 1:24) Why does the demon in Sunday’s Gospel use the plural “us” rather than the singular “me”? Jesus’s following words of exorcism clearly show there is only one demon involved. When a devil interferes with us, he wants to identify himself with us, so we

Let us repair our nets

January 21, 2024

“He preached in these words, ‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God.” (Jonah 3:4-5) Why was Jonah’s preaching so effective in today’s first reading? His words were simple, but they were strengthened by his witness: he had come alive from the belly of

Jesus Loves the Utility Mass

February 20, 2021

Active Catholics can look down on the "slackers," like those who go to the "utility Mass" on Sunday evening, for just barely fulfilling their obligation. Some ask why they even bother going.

The Demons Prosper. Jesus Thwarts Them.

January 31, 2021

Jesus astonishes because he did all in his own name — as if he himself were the source of all truth, as if he himself were the source of all healing and divine power, as if he himself were the fulfillment of all your hope.

This year, I’ve come to appreciate just how vulnerable the baby Jesus was

December 15, 2017

The Creed’s affirmation that the Son of God 'became man' has hit me with full force in the past few days

Greggs apologises for replacing baby Jesus with sausage roll in Nativity scene

November 15, 2017

The image appears in the bakery's chain advent calendar for 2017

Poll: Nearly one in three Britons think Christ was an ‘extremist’

July 17, 2017

Twenty-five per cent also thought that Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela could be considered extremists