Solemnity of the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi Sunday) Year C – 22 June 2025. Dear friends in Christ, ...

Ted Cruz’s politics aren’t just conservative, they’re theological. Jonathan Newman explores how dispensationalism shapes US ...

In the day that YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given the earth, from the river of Egypt to the great river Perath.” ...

Skipping ahead, Sarah (her name, like Abram’s, is changed after the covenant of circumcision) gives birth to Isaac. Isaac and Ishmael grow up together.

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted in sacred art through the ages.

The author of Genesis, in our first reading, brings this point home when he recounts the forging of the covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham…then called Abram.

Again repeating the promise to Abram (now Abraham), God commands him to circumcise every male as a “sign” of the covenant (17:11). Nothing has changed in the divine initiative; it is still God ...