We recently observed the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. While we can always look to the glory of his martyrdom, which is intrinsic and rooted in God’s unchanging judgment and will, I ...
‘The Marriage of the Virgin’ is shown in a fresco in St. Augustine Church in Covington, Kentucky. (photo: Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This Sunday’s Gospel offers some fundamental ...
The context of Jesus’s defense of marriage is the Pharisee’s defense of a husband’s right to dismiss his wife. We should not be surprised that Jesus defends the ideal of indissolubility found in ...