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 ...

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 ...

The biblical fig tree, for example, gives rise in My Wild Garden to linguistic ruminations: “In Hebrew, by the way, the verb le’erot, ‘to pick fruit from a fig tree,’ comes from the word orr, which ...

“When you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near” (Luke 21:31). Daniel 7:2-14; Luke 21:29-33 When we consider the many threats to the environment being reported by scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sunday, Nov. 18, is the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11; Hebrews 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32. After another long day of back-and-forth with the ...