Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was a revered teacher and healer and mystic. But, in addition to being all that, Jesus was something of a jokester. If ...

Erik Kolbell, . . Westminster John Knox, $19.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-664-22292-5 Though they are fundamental to Christian devotion and practice, the New Testament Beatitudes can become so familiar to ...

While writing the article about The Doxology, for some reason I thought about The Beatitudes. I don’t think I’ve written about these before. Strangers often ask where my stories come from and ...

Pope Francis spoke on the paradox of the Beatitudes in his Sunday Angelus address on Feb. 13, saying that the defining characteristic of a disciple of Jesus is joy.

Open your Bible to Matthew 5 and you will never be the same. Gandhi and King called those passages the grandest manifesto of non-violence ever written -- beginning with the storied Beatitudes ...

I was invited to a destination in June. I really wanted to go. Problem was the wedding was in Amsterdam. Destination weddings are on the rise and might be really fun, but not always practical, at ...

Jesus is saying that this is what the transformed human person is like when Christ transforms us. We are still blessed even when poor, mourning or persecuted.

Jesus shares an essential part of his mind in today’s Gospel reading. These blessings, traditionally called the “Beatitudes,” are not commandments, but rather statements of vision.

The beatitudes, in fact, reflect Jesus’ life and what he proposes to everyone. The great surprise and good news of Christ is that he actually offers and gives his holiness, the cardinal said.

Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The Beatitudes are "the portrait of Jesus", the basis of his "new teaching", "the road that indicates God as a response to the desire for happiness inherent in man, and ...

Our prayer, fasting and almsgiving can be more than a self-improvement plan if we do like Jesus did, and focus on those on the margins, says Deacon Tony Remedios.