Luther’s 95 Theses, posted on October 31, 1517, ignited the Protestant Reformation. At the time, he was an Augustinian monk and the head of his monastic order in that region, Johannes Staupitz, had ...

Sunday, Oct. 5, is the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10. The Lord’s teaching in the Gospel can seem ...

Between the disciples of Jesus and those whose faith is mostly performative, whose piety is a bit too much for show, there should be the starkest difference. One should not be like the others; a ...