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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In Matthew’s gospel, we find what is arguably Jesus’ most well known teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. In this broad sermon, Jesus equips his followers ...

In the 19th-century, Harriet Livermore boldly defended a women’s right to speak in the church and pulpit.

Buba Adamu By Segun Onibiyo (Kaduna, Nigeria) He chose the life of walking desert sand to share life-giving water.Abubakar Adamu, 38, belove ...

After receiving this recognition, the Holy Father decided to send the medal to the Buenos Aires cathedral, where he served as ...

Anyone notice that when wildfires swept through L.A. two months ago the holier-than-thous wasted no time proclaiming it was ...

I become better—a better bishop and a better priest, and better to my men—precisely because I want to generate love for the migrant who’s passing through this diocese,” says Bishop Joseph Tyson of ...