We were never intended by our creator to live out our lives in a vacuum, cut off from the benefits of human companionship and the encouragement, the support, the help…

It is difficult for us to imagine Christ being deliberately abusive towards anyone, but even so, some of the language he uses on the Pharisees is anything but gentle. Pharisaism…

Certainly, the first point being made in this Gospel is simply what it seems to be, gratitude. The lepers asked for Christ’s help, he freely gave it.  But once their…

Habakkuk was one of a handful of prophets who wrote during the very turbulent, troubled years in Israel that led up to the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in…

There are two kinds of people that consistently seem to draw from Christ a lot of harsh, critical, even abusive language. The first is the self-righteous hypocrite, the person more…

In this Gospel passage Christ seems to be praising an out-and-out crook, a man who was consciously dishonest, calculating and deceptive. But the point being made is a simple one….

Over recent years the Church’s focus of attention in the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross has shifted away from the finding of a particular relic and has settled…

The fact is that to choose anything means also not to choose something else, something that may also be good, and attractive and satisfying. In the two images in the…

I don’t suppose there is very much in life that more of us value more highly than simply peace of mind, freedom from stress, from anxiety. That being so, these…

By the time St Luke wrote this Gospel, the Church was facing the challenge of learning to live with what seemed to be the absence of Christ, the absence of…