This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

The Sermon on the Mount, which continues in this week’s gospel, has generated more comment, commentary and criticism, both ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

As the Church walks through the great Sermon on the Mount in the Mass, we are all reminded of the way of love and the life that we are called to live as followers of the Lord Jesus. It is an immense ...

In the Beatitudes, many of us can learn to challenge conventional thinking under the redemptive grace of God, as seen in Archbishop Tutu's fight with apartheid.

Certain passages throughout the four Gospels contain blessings and warnings that bring Jesus’ teaching into sharp focus. These passages are known as “Beatitudes,” a genre made famous in Jesus’ ...

The Sermon on the Mount uses over fifty memorable images, many of which have passed into such common usage that their origins in Matthew’s gospel would come ...

Early in his introduction, Glen Stassen asks why a book on the Sermon on the Mount belongs in Jossey-Bass’s series called Enduring Questions in Christian Life. The Sermon on the Mount is indeed an ...