A traditional depiction of Jesus teaching the Beatitudes during the Sermon on the Mount. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen As human beings, we were made for happiness. A longing for it is written in our ...

The Sermon on the Mount, from The Life of Our Lord, published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London c.1880. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen The Advent season is a time to keep Christmas ...

During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis Pope Francis began a new series of catechesis on the eight beatitudes from Matthew’s Gospel, saying the beatitudes are a message for all of humanity.

Cinematic reflections on the Eight Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount will be the focus of a movie project that hopes to tap the power of beauty. "God works through beauty, and beauty is the most ...

Tomorrow’s Gospel (Mt 5: 1-12) is Matthew’s account of the Beatitudes, the opening section of the Sermon on the Mount. In modern parlance it is a mission statement of what Christianity is about.