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TO TOUCH HIS WOUNDS Faith in the resurrection of Jesus has more to do with simply believing that He has come back to life. It means that He has overcome death forever. It is a belief that in His humanity He has moved to a state of existence that is beyond space and time. It means that we dispense with childish, earthbound images of Jesus as having a shiny body suspended somewhere in space, floating triumphantly somewhere between heaven and earth. READ MORE

THE EASTER OF THE KING OF PEACE Easter removes God from every violence because the Risen One does not return violence; He ends the cycle of violence. He does not demand revenge. He does not reopen the case. He returns with a simple word: peace. WHERE TO FIND RESURRECTION Resurrection always eventually trumps crucifixion. What’s good eventually triumphs. Thus, while nothing that’s of God will avoid crucifixion, no body of Christ stays in the tomb for long. God always rolls back the stone and, soon enough, new life bursts forth and we see why that original life had to be crucified.   MORE THAN A DAY: WHAT THE EASTER OCTAVE TEACHES US The Gospel readings during the Octave include some of the most beautiful passages of scripture from the time after Jesus’ Resurrection and his first encounters with his friends and disciples. These readings remind us of the importance of Jesus’ Resurrection and the power of living out his message here on earth.   RECOGNIZING CHRIST At the margins of reality that the eye embraces, that the heart feels, that the mind imagines, there is an unknown. Everyone feels it. Everyone has always felt it. People have felt it so strongly that their imaginations have given it a form. In every age, people have sought to gaze on the face of this unknown. IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN EASTER PEOPLE? Easter does not promise that violence will cease overnight. But the resurrection is a promise that Christ remains present with the crucified. MISTAKING MARY MAGDALENE The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith. AS U.S. BOMBS IRAN, POPE LEO CRITICIZES THOSE WHO WOULD USE GOD FOR WAR As Leo XIV approaches his first Easter as pope, a new era of American military might cloaked in religious righteousness is presenting him with a challenge: How to confront a vision of God being articulated by the Trump administration and its supporters that sounds radically different than the view of the Vatican. MIDDLE EAST: STOP THIS MADNESS Who will shout: “Stop – this is madness”? The Middle East resembles two runaway trains hurtling towards each other on the same track, seconds from a catastrophe. They are heading nowhere.