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.

VATICAN CITY — The eight beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount reveal the path from selfishness to holiness, Pope Francis said at his general audience Wednesday. Speaking via ...

[Editor’s Note: Father Jeffrey Kirby, known to the readers of Crux for his weekly spirituality column, is the parish priest of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Indian Land, South Carolina. He holds a ...

In Why Christians Should Be Leftists, Phil Christman argues that Jesus' teachings "[lay] out an ethic that would make it next ...

Open your Bible to Matthew 5 and you will never be the same. Gandhi and King called those passages the grandest manifesto of non-violence ever written -- beginning with the storied Beatitudes. Grand ...

On his first full day in Chile, Pope Francis told Catholics in the country that the Beatitudes aren't just a simple piece of advice from someone who purports to know everything, but are a source of ...

What are "The Beatitudes for Caregivers"? The Beatitudes are from the Bible and listed in Matthew 5:3-12 and Luke 6:20-26. They are at the heart of Jesus' teachings and declarations of blessedness ...

Typically listeners don’t pay much attention to the religious invocations delivered at events like today’s inauguration. And typically those invocations shower down specific blessings on the specific ...

Recently my friend and I hosted a lunch to benefit Beatitudes House, a Catholic Worker home in Guadalupe; it is a place of hospitality for the poor. The afternoon was successful, in terms of letting ...

The eight beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount reveal the path from selfishness to holiness, Pope Francis said at his general audience Wednesday. Speaking via livestream due to ...