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The death of Jesus must not be attributed to specifically to the Jews. When talking...

Jesus’s fame and popularity among the people of Israel had gone to new heights. After...

“When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers”...

In India, in a situation which contradicts their otherwise outcast social status, Dalits are recruited...

In the Western tradition, the seven deadly sins are listed as pride, greed, lust, envy,...

“Do not praise a man before you hear him reason, for this is the test...

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Ex. 20:16 RSV). Who is our...

Perhaps the most dangerous sin of all, pride, can exist in the midst of other...

Nothing is so quick to turn us away from the good than by seeking praise...

“He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to...

Sin divides and destroys what is good, including and especially the existence of that which...

“Be angry,” Paul says, “but do not sin; do not let the sun go down...

The defiled mind, with its attachment to the falsely understood self, establishes an erroneous duality...

 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie down in...

“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the...

Paul, in the letter to the Philippians, tells Christians that they are not to be...

Religious liberty is important.  We are to be given the freedom to worship, or not...

We are a mix of spiritual and material realities, each desiring and leading us to...

It has become extremely difficult for our youth to come together and form families. Many...

We know little about Amma Sarah; she is a saint of the church, whose feast...

“Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride,...

I woke up this morning and saw, to my dismay, the horrible mass killing of...

And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's...

St. Salvian, talking about the horrors the poor faced in his day, could easily be...

The Christian way is the way of love. Love is not boastful, it is not...

We are on a journey – a journey towards our true homeland, the kingdom of...

Several theological and philosophical paradoxes emerge as we try to deal with and contemplate the...

Water is good. Water is necessary for life. We need water. We need to drink...

We all tend to look to others, desiring the approval of our peers. There is,...

The Great Fast, Lent, is not only the time set aside to prepare the faithful...