This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

Jesus’ mission has begun, and he has chosen Apostles to perpetuate it. Today, we hear the Sermon on the Mount. Because the current Lectionary tries to reach each Gospel relatively continuously, ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

Christian believers are called to “remember their dignity” and to seek and always to live the abundant life offered in Jesus Christ. Admittedly, this is a tall order. What person has always honored ...

As the Church walks through the great Sermon on the Mount in the Mass, we are all reminded of the way of love and the life that we are called to live as followers of the Lord Jesus. It is an immense ...

The Sermon on the Mount, which continues in this week’s gospel, has generated more comment, commentary and criticism, both within and outside the Church, than any other part of the Christian Gospels.

Ethics for Christians in Living the Sermon on the Mount. We can barely overstate the historic significance of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics. Since the day Matthew recorded this ...

We know from history that violence always begets more violence. We have seen this again in recent days. Israel and the US are dropping bombs on Iran, ...