It’s the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is the familiar story of the encounter of our Lord Jesus Christ with the blind Bartimaeus in Jericho. I am blessed to have visited Jericho two ...

It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent and today’s reading is the healing of our Lord Jesus Christ of the man born blind. If we printed the entire gospel, we’d run out of space. But this passage that you will ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for ...

Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Apostles contains Peter’s preaching about Christ as healer from sin and its effects as a consequence of his passion, death and resurrection. The sermon was occasioned by ...

The steps where Jesus Christ healed a blind man in the New Testament were uncovered 2,000 years later. According to Fox News, archeologists accomplished the unearthing of nearly eight steps leading ...

Imagine being blind with nosy neighbors, fearful parents and judgmental religious leaders inserting their opinions into the work of Jesus Christ in your life. You finally get healed and instead of a ...

Pope Francis held an audience with the blind and deaf on Saturday, encouraging them to become witnesses of Christ and to build a culture of encounter rather than exclusion. "We think of the many whom ...

Both the first reading and Gospel today have segments focused on the healing of the blind as promised by God. In the first reading, we learn from the prophet Isaiah of the end goal of God’s plan, ...

“After leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus went through Sidon toward the Galilee Sea through the region of the Ten Cities. Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly speak, and they ...