Sunday, July 30, is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52 or Matthew 13:44-46. The Gospel ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Find today’s readings here. The Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit. With one terrible act of violence after another, the story in today’s ...

On the road to Emmaus, Yeshua met with two of His disciples and, beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to ...

Race relations is probably the most important problem agitating the Christian conscience today. Secular integrationists are calling upon the Church to speak to the problem—assuming that if it “spoke,” ...

We look, with yearning and joy, toward that long-awaited dawn. “To be a Christian is to live every day of our lives in solidarity with those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, but to ...

Sunday was the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, i.e., Mary’s Birthday. The Church marks that feast nine months after the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8. (For confused Catholics, ...