COMMENTARY: Christ’s message could not be more at odds with the aims of secular society, which is to live an unencumbered life on the broad, open and inclusive way. St. Thomas Aquinas has written ...

The Narrow Gate is the story of Galileo Galilei and his imprisonment by the Catholic Church during the Inquisition told with elegance and a sly sense of humor. Though forced to recant his theories by ...

Matthew 7:13, 14 says, “Enter you in the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there will go in it. Because straight is the gate, and narrow is ...

We all face an either or decision and there are only two possible choices. In Matthew 7, Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to ...

Today’s Gospel gathers various sayings attributed to Jesus. It is interesting to find the Golden Rule, to treat others as you want to be treated, grouped with warnings about pigs and dogs. These ...

When my siblings and I were very young and incorrigibly misbehaving, my mother, as a last-ditch effort to get us to listen, would occasionally pick up the rotary phone and inform us that she was ...

I love a good poem, and one of my favorites is by Robert Frost. In 1915, Frost wrote one of his most beloved poems, “The Road Not Taken.” He actually wrote it as a joke to tease his friend Edward ...

I once had a teacher whose favorite line to his classes was that teaching us was like “casting fake pearls before real swine.” It was a joke, I think. We took it as humor but also as a swipe at ...