What do you think was going through the minds of the people when Jesus gave us the Beatitudes? More Reflections: Are you contrary? Time to think about it: What will you do with a New Year? I’ve always ...

The beatitudes are promises that God has made to humanity. Some of these promises are fulfilled in every age; mourners are comforted each day. Others will only find fulfillment in the fullness of ...

Pope Francis washes the foot of a refugee during Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Center for Asylum Seekers in Castelnuovo di Porto, about 15 miles north of Rome March 24, 2016. (CNS ...

The Beatitudes offer a “new program of life” and demand a discipleship through which people today can open themselves up to what is truly good, Pope Benedict XVI explained during his traditional noon ...

The beatitudes are a path to joy and true happiness mapped out by Jesus for all of humanity, Pope Francis said. "It is difficult not to be touched by these words," the pope said Jan. 29 during his ...

VATICAN CITY — The eight beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount reveal the path from selfishness to holiness, Pope Francis said at his general audience Wednesday. Speaking via ...

When I was a graduate student at Duke, my professors David Steinmetz and Roland Murphy were blazing a new trail into the history of the interpretation of scripture, hacking away at the conceit that ...

During the Angelus, Pope Francis said that the way of the beatitudes runs against the mindset of the world. People should choose between the path of "heaven or earth". For the pontiff, "we were born ...

During my days as a young boy who regularly attended church and Sunday school, one of the biblical passages most frequently cited by pastors and catechists was the beatitudes. Perhaps, that’s why it ...

In fact, a good deal of the Bible can easily be dismissed as foreign to the modern world. So much of every book of the Bible is in need of interpretation in a world of digital icons and multiple ...