VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for ...

It’s the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is the familiar story of the encounter of our Lord Jesus Christ with the blind Bartimaeus in Jericho. I am blessed to have visited Jericho two ...

Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Apostles contains Peter’s preaching about Christ as healer from sin and its effects as a consequence of his passion, death and resurrection. The sermon was occasioned by ...

The steps where Jesus Christ healed a blind man in the New Testament were uncovered 2,000 years later. According to Fox News, archeologists accomplished the unearthing of nearly eight steps leading ...

“After leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus went through Sidon toward the Galilee Sea through the region of the Ten Cities. Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they ...

Both the first reading and Gospel today have segments focused on the healing of the blind as promised by God. In the first reading, we learn from the prophet Isaiah of the end goal of God’s plan, ...

It happened one too many times. My Seeing Eye dog and I went to church and heard another totally uninspiring homily about John 9, the story of the man born blind. It contained the usual elements: “I ...

Discovering hope and healing for fallible followers through Jesus’ faithfulness in the Gospel of Mark. When I began exploring the Christian faith I’d inherited from my parents, I felt as though I’d ...

The following is an excerpt from What Did Jesus Ask?, edited by Elizabeth Dias and published by TIME Books, available from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Read other excerpts from the book here. “Do you ...