It's the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time and our gospel this Sunday is similar to last Sunday's gospel, where we learned that our Lord Jesus Christ is a healer and a preacher. Yet he wasn't schooled in ...

Maybe it’s because the New Testament is generally more straightforward and upbeat than the Old Testament (see: Lewis Black’s bit on the subject), but perhaps the most striking thing about Risen is how ...

I have heard it said by some of my colleagues that Mark’s Gospel is a subversive gospel. Their reasoning is that this Good News account of Jesus cuts to the heart of social, political, religious and ...

Benedict XVI reflects on Jesus' healing of the leper and 154th anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes' first appearance to St. Bernadette. VATICAN CITY (EWTN NEWS/CNA)—Jesus Christ’s healing of the leper ...

Themes: Acceptance; compassion; caring for all; the life of Jesus. Summary: The source for this well-known Bible story is three of the gospels: Matthew 8: 1 - 4, Mark 1: 40 - 45, and Luke 5: 12 - 15.

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My 16 years at a rural hospital in India showed me what healing and restoration in Christian community look like. In 1994, my mother began working as a doctor at a rural hospital run by the Christian ...

In his Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis focused on mercy, noting how Jesus heals not by giving lectures, but by going close to those who suffer and curing the "leprosy" of our sin. "The hand of ...