Author: José Antonio Pagola

Jesus was realistic. He knew that he couldn’t transform from one day to the next a society where he saw so many…

Following Jewish custom, the first Christians greeted each other wishing mutual «peace». It wasn’t a routine or conventional greeting. For them it…

Christians started their expansion in a society in which there were distinct terms to express what we today call love. The most…

It’s more frequent than we think. We believers say we believe in God, but in practice we live as if God doesn’t…

This question that the Risen One directs to Peter reminds all of us who call ourselves believers that the vitality of our…

John has taken good care with the story about Jesus entrusting his mission to his disciples. He wants to leave very clear…

Now they won’t ever be the same. The encounter with Jesus, full of life after his execution, completely transformed his disciples. They…

How did Jesus spend his last hours? What was his attitude at the moment of execution? The Gospels don’t stop to analyze…

In every society there are models of conduct that explicitly or implicitly shape personal behavior. They are models that greatly determine our…

Contemporary exegetes have opened up a new way of reading the parable traditionally called «the prodigal son», to discover in it the…

The greatest danger that threatens all of us is to end up living a sterile life. Without realizing it we go about…

From childhood we Christians have heard of the Gospel story traditionally called the «transfiguration of Jesus». At this point it’s not possible…

It’s our big temptation. Reduce everything to the horizon of our life for the mere satisfaction of our desires; pawn ourselves in…

Jesus’ advice is easy to understand. «There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces…

Jesus’ message is clear and resounding: «Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you». Is it possible to live out…

The West hasn’t wanted to believe in love as the source of life and happiness for humanity and for society. The Beatitudes…

It’s frequently said that the consciousness of sin has disappeared. That’s not the whole story. What’s happened is that the crisis of…

Jesus could pretty quickly see what he could expect from his own people. The Gospel writers haven’t hidden from us the resistance…

One of the features most scandalous and unbearable of Jesus’ conduct is his decisive defense of the poor. Over and over again…

Jesus has always been known as the founder of Christianity. Today however a different approach has begun to open up: Jesus is…

Many are the men and women who one day were baptized by their parents and today don’t know how to exactly define…

The Gospel-writer John, when he speaks to us of the incarnation of God’s Son, doesn’t tell us anything about that so familiar…

The fourth Gospel opens with a very special prologue. It’s a kind of hymn that from the first centuries decisively helped Christians…

We’re living in times in which it seems that the only way to be able to believe the truth, for many ends…

The media informs us all the more rapidly each day of what’s happening in the world. We know more than ever the…

There are people who, instead of believing in God, believe in those who talk about God. They only know God «by hearsay».…

Jesus didn’t dedicate himself to explain religious doctrine so that his disciples would learn it correctly and spread it later to everyone.…

The trial takes place in the palace where the Roman prefect lives when he comes to Jerusalem. The day has just dawned.…

The signs of hopelessness aren’t always very visible, since lack of hope can be disguised as superficial optimism, blind activism or secret…

Theoretically the poor are for the Church what they were for Jesus: the preferred ones, the first who must attract our attention…