Workers in Old Jerusalem have stumbled onto the ruins of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus, in the Gospel of John, heals a man blind from birth--the new find is being praised as a discovery which helps ...

As noted last week, the Church provides two options for its readings on the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent. The Year B reading for today is John 3:14-21 (“For God so loved the world …”). The ...

Jesus continued with a familiar theme — “light.” (See Vol. 49.) He says, “ ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’ ” Then Jesus spits into the dirt to make mud and places the mud on ...

Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Apostles contains Peter’s preaching about Christ as healer from sin and its effects as a consequence of his passion, death and resurrection. The sermon was occasioned by ...

“As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ...

The location of the pool where, according to the New Testament, Jesus healed a blind man in one of his most famous miracles has been up for debate for hundreds of years. Known as the Pool of Siloam, ...

“As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said ...