It's easy to say you love the church universal, the whole bride of Christ. But Scripture unmistakably calls us to love the ...

I gaze upon the crucifix at Holy Mass, contemplating the image of Christ’s broken body, poured out for the Church, as he is truly present — his body, blood, soul and divinity — on the altar. A sense ...

If the church is the bride of Christ, then Jesus is married to both Rachel and Leah—to the church he wants and to the church he has to take. Rachel is the wife he loves and thought he was getting, but ...

Christ speaking to His disciples before His death said, “I will build My church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Future tense). (Matt. 16:18.) God the Son bought His church with ...