VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for ...

As noted last week, the Gospels of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent can vary, but priests can always use the “scrutiny readings” — which also happen to be the readings prescribed for this ...

Imagine being blind with nosy neighbors, fearful parents and judgmental religious leaders inserting their opinions into the work of Jesus Christ in your life. You finally get healed and instead of a ...

“After leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus went through Sidon toward the Galilee Sea through the region of the Ten Cities. Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they ...

A new excavation project in Jerusalem has unearthed steps unseen in over 2,000 years at a place where the New Testament records Jesus as having healed a blind man. The Israel Antiquities Authority, ...

Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter's Square on Sunday morning for Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus message. The Pope called on the faithful to admit that their sins have blinded them and to ...

"Christ Healing the Blind Man" by 17th century French painter Eustache Le Sueur (Wikimedia Commons). Last week, we read in the Gospel of John about the woman at the well, who believes in Jesus and ...

Before his weekly Sunday Angelus, the Pope noted that the kingdom of God announced by Jesus Christ is manifested in the integral healing of man. Commenting on the Sunday reading of St. Matthew the ...