During a visit last fall to Niagara Falls, just over the Canadian border, I ate lunch at a small family owned Italian restaurant which sparked an interesting conversation with the chef owner about ...

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Bartholomew, who many believe is the apostle called Nathanael in John 1:45-51, today's Gospel. "Philip found Nathanael and told him, 'We have found the one ...

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Roth's current Living by the Word column as well as past magazine and blog content. For ...

In today’s gospel, Jesus expressed amazement at his contemporaries for their failure to read the signs of the times. In simplest terms, he pointed to the weather and the seasons for their obvious ...

Christ once fasted forty days, so He knew how to go without food. Cursing the fig tree was not about His appetite. It was an ...

Figs and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, both as a common food and for their spiritual importance. What is less well understood is the global nature of this ...

And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found ...