Roger Karban

Daily Easter Reflections: It is providential that June begins with the feast of the Ascension. This celebration always brings up a basic biblical problem: What happened to Jesus after his resurrection? Our first two Gospels — Mark and Matthew — simply leave us hanging.

Daily Easter Reflections: Those educated in vintage Catholic schools, like myself, were often supplied with seemingly iron-clad proofs that our church was the "true" church. 

Daily Lenten Reflections: No Scripture passage could set a more insightful theme for the month of April than the Fifth Sunday of Lent’s first reading. The only problem is that it should be read in its original Hebrew, not in an English translation.

Daily Lenten Reflections: It is significant this year that the month containing the first four liturgical readings for Lent begins with the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Scripture passages for that weekend set the theme for the other four.

Grace from Eucharist comes to all of us, whether or not we pay a Mass stipend. But that stipend is a reflection of looking at Eucharist as not an action but a thing -- a commodity.

Sometimes our sacred authors share an “Alfred Hitchcock” moment with us: Just as the famous director suddenly appeared in his movies, they appear in their writings. 

It’s easy to forget that the majority of people to whom the biblical prophets proclaimed Yahweh’s word never listened to that word, much less carried it out, some even tried to kill God’s mouthpieces.

Unlike catechisms, scripture frequently offers us a choice. The same theology doesn’t run from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation.