This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

If you listen to that hymn and understand the Latin words, you recognize it as romantic prayer: Aquinas adoring and ...

Scripture’s description of the church is more than a comparison to human anatomy. I have preached 1 Corinthians 12 more times than I can count. I have preached it at staff retreats with lukewarm ...

I did not go to Mass this weekend. I am grateful that my parish and diocese have suspended the public celebration of the Eucharist for the foreseeable future in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

The Feast of Corpus Christi (“Body of Christ”) is a Catholic solemnity celebrating the real presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in the elements of the Eucharist. During ...

When the churches closed for public worship last year at the outset of the pandemic, we livestreamed Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, New Jersey, where I live in ...

On the surface of things, there’s no mystery how one ought to receive Communion: Stand up, file out of the pew, wait your turn in line, eat the Host, and head back to the pew. But beneath these ...

Iam more than a little obsessed with bodies and their limits and possibilities. Maybe it’s because my own body gives me so much trouble. (I have complex Crohn’s disease and live with the aftereffects ...

Church discipline is as much about God as it is about erring believers. The Protestant reformers named three “marks by which the true church is known”: the preaching of the pure doctrine of the gospel ...

is your neighborhood reporter for North Beach, Downtown Corpus Christi and the Bay Area. The First United Methodist Church on South Shoreline is marking three decades since the installation of its ...