This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...

It’s a common saying that a homilist should prepare to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. This week, as I was praying and meditating about our Lord’s teaching about being ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

Have you heard the latest from some folks of the “Jesus-is-my savior/Trump-is-my-president” persuasion? They’re claiming the Sermon on the Mount was lily-livered liberalism. You can’t make this stuff ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

Cambridge, MA. It is the start of the new semester at Harvard, and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy — even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60+ inches of snow ...