What if the choice between Jesus and Barabbas didn’t end 2,000 years ago? In this video, Pedro Gabriel explores how that same decision—between domination and dialogue, power and peace—is still shaping our world today. From modern politics on both the...
A few quick thoughts on today’s Solemnity, in the context of this historical moment: Everything authentic conforms to this paradigm: being made anew after deep brokenness. If spirit truly is the capacity for self-transcendence, then implosion and expansion are part of...
In his first Easter as pope, Leo XIV made a series of subtle but powerful choices that may reveal the deeper direction of his pontificate. From the Chrism Mass to the Way of the Cross, and from the washing of...
The following is a modified version of an Easter reflection that was first published on March 30, 2026 by Catholic Standard. “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,...
My good friend, a retired priest from the Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario, took a group of kids to the Dominican Republic more than 30 years ago. One day he went out to the outlying regions in Consuelo, called the Bateyes,...
One of the most pressing questions people have, young students especially, has to do with the problem of evil. Why do bad things happen to good people? And, if God exists, how can he allow so much suffering and evil...
This fourth Sunday of Lent we celebrate the second of the three Scrutinies for our Elect, the second of three opportunities for us to pray over – and for – those who are preparing to be baptized at Easter. When...
Holy Week is beginning and there will be several additional liturgical celebrations in the Vatican in the coming days. Due to his continuing recovery, it is unclear how much Pope Francis will be able to participate in the celebrations this...
I grew up in what was once a small, Protestant New England Church. The old brick building still stands on the street front with its quintessential white tower, but by the time it was my church, it had become a...
A reflection on the readings of April 14, 2024 — the Third Sunday of Easter In our parish office we like to have a bowl of chocolates to offer to people who stop by. We are always amused at the...
Christ is risen! Truly, he is risen! Jesus Christ has conquered sin and death. We know that God has the final word. And that word is love. For “God is love” (1 Jn. 4:8). The kingdom of God which Jesus...
We of Where Peter Is mulled over writing something about what’s going on in Gaza for a long time before I offered to do so. The stakes could hardly be any higher for getting an intervention on this right or...
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