Tag: Scripture

Dear Father, In a recent column you wrote that the Bible is truthful in everything it says, and I am happy to accept that....

“Dear Father, I was recently at a class in which the teacher said that the Bible was truthful only in spiritual matters, not in...

Humour can be used for good, or ill Because humour is about incongruity, it has long been a tool for addressing the hypocrisy of the...

Part 4 of Mark’s series exploring the Beatitudes One of the little oddities of Scripture is that the traditional reading of it tends to smooth...

Eddie Sallan is one of many Catholics devoting 2021 to reading and reflecting on the Bible and its riches.

When Jesus was beginning his ministry in Nazareth, he started by going into the synagogue on the Sabbath and reading this announcement from the...

Pray the Divine Office and reap the benefits You know that terrible person in Mass who won’t stop looking at their phone? Chances are they’re...

Advent is an opportunity look at our relationship with time One of the nicest things about the last 50 years has been the rediscovery of...

We have to speak up against evil, don't we? Recently at Mass, we heard the opening words of the first reading, "You duped me, o...

there is still the tendency for me to default into using phrases of common prayers from The Book of Common Prayer (1662), such as “the quick and the dead” instead of “the living and the dead”