SCRIPTURES & ART: Our suffering is tailor-made for our capacities, and by it we grow in holiness when we join it to the suffering and cross of Christ. Barna da Siena, “Christ Bearing the Cross, With a ...

Today’s Gospel combines two threads that seem superficially to lack a connection: Jesus’s demand for total abandonment of self to be his disciple and his teaching about prudent planning. The ...

The Easter Sunday Gospel is, at best, a half-story. Hearing it is like listening to a 4-year-old report on his day: lots of details, little plot and not much of a conclusion. Mary went to Jesus' tomb ...

The primary scriptures, the Vedas and the Upanishads, are ideally learnt from a guru and the oral method of transmission that has prevailed since days of yore is shown to have been efficacious in ...

Reading the Gospel accounts of Good Friday, the first thing that strikes one is the degree to which the Hebrew Scriptures are present in the text. The early Christians were trying to make sense of ...