Scripture for Life: When the disciples gathered to debate and pray in Acts 15, their commitment only grew deeper as they recognized the Spirit forming them into a community more attached to Christ than to their opinions.
Christians who preach the Gospel must see people who do not know Christ as children of God and not as nonbelievers worthy of hostility and contempt, Pope Francis said.
The Peace Pulpit: As we celebrate Pentecost, I hope we can take to our heart this message that comes to us so clearly in the readings: that Jesus rejects violence and so must we.
NCR Today: Power and wealth became driving forces that caused the church to lose focus on the message of Jesus. As we celebrate his resurrection, we need to return to the Gospels.
Simply Spirit: Vatican statements on women priests are invariably ahistorical and biblically naive. It is embarrassing. Worse, they bear false witness to the Jesus of history.
Scripture for Life: Pentecost challenges us to ask ourselves if we are courageous enough to harbor the open-ended expectations demanded of anyone who prays, "Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth."
The Peace Pulpit: Jesus is giving to you the responsibility to spread the good news that he came to teach us — that the world could be transformed into the reign of God.
My Table Is Spread: It is Easter Monday as I write and I am waiting. I am grieving. I am rejoicing. And I am grateful for new life and new love and old friendships and old stories.
NCR Today: The first-century church and the formation of the New Testament are dramatized in an artistically strong film about St. Paul that's worthy of a widespread audience.
