When we read the story of David and Goliath, many of us have rather vague notions of how he used a slingshot to kill Goliath. When I was a kid I had a crude slingshot, a toy really, that didn’t do...
The Sunday Gospel announces a critical Advent theme: While I want to comment primarily on the Reading from Isaiah, the Gospel admonition surely deserves some attention as well. Too many today hold...
The following verses are reminders that the Lord is a healer and deliverer. While it is true that there are sufferings in this world, it also remains true that God delivers his people from...
What follows is a kind of Scriptural Rosary that draws on Wisdom texts from the Old Testament. There, wisdom is often personified as “Lady Wisdom.” While some have thought to attribute these verses...
The readings for this Feast of Christ the King evoke three images of Christ as King. All of them are to some extent paradoxical because they emphasize things we don’t usually associate with kings...
Cada 9 de diciembre, pocos días antes de celebrar la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, recordamos a San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, en cuyos vestidos quedó impresa la imagen de la Madre de Dios.
Agentes policiales de la Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana (SSC) de la Ciudad de México detuvieron hoy a un hombre que ingresó armado de un cuchillo atado a un palo a la Catedral Metropolitana de...
Cada 9 de diciembre, la Iglesia Católica celebra la festividad dedicada a San Juan Diego, el vidente de la Virgen de Guadalupe. Reconocido por el acontecimiento guadalupano entre el 9 y el 12 de...
En pocos días, la Iglesia en Argentina celebra la beatificación de uno de sus más distinguidos fieles, el Cardenal Eduardo Pironio, cuyo ministerio dejó una huella indeleble. ACI Prensa habló con uno...