We must be very careful that the real point of today's first reading is not washed away in genuine concerns over what one can and cannot say [...]

It is fortuitous that this passage of the Gospel is normally read near to the beginning of November when we have celebrated the feasts of All [...]

There is a subversive humour in today's Gospel which turns upside down the conventions of everyday life: we see a senior tax official climbing up [...]

A few weeks ago (22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) we had a Gospel about humility in social life– today we hear the Lord reiterating the message, but [...]

Perhaps the hardest Olympic event is the marathon: not only does it demand strength and fitness, but it calls for immense perseverance and [...]

There are many messages in todays Gospel: the power of God to heal, the compassion of Jesus for those in need, the fact that a despised foreigner [...]

Faithfulness, faith and trust. These most invisible and difficult things are what God asks of us – just as we, in our own way, ask them of those [...]

Following on from last week (“You cannot be the slave of both God and money”) we see a practical illustration of what this means. The division [...]

How easy to take the words of Jesus out of context: “Use money to win you friends,” is one of those lines that sounds strange to us outside the [...]

The message of God's forgiveness is one that we are familiar with, but which the Lord still wishes to emphasise. Our human approach to [...]