As she prepares us for Mass with Opening the Word for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Notre Dame theology professor Catherine Cavadini explores the reading of the good Samaritan, seen through the eyes of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who preached that
In his latest “All Things New” column for Our Sunday Visitor, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that “we are called to love God above all else, and our neighbor as ourself, but our ability to love others in any way that isn’t
In this Sunday’s readings, we hear about the 10 lepers who are healed by Jesus. Yet, only one — a Samaritan — returns to thank God. This reading reminds us to give thanks to God for all things. But we should also
The greatest threat to the Gospel may be not secularization or a culture hostile to Christianity. Instead, it may be ourselves, our own tepid preaching of the word. As a Church, we regularly reduce the Gospel to a series of moral principles.