I was lifting weights a few weeks ago in a workout that felt a little harder than normal. The next day, I experienced intense lower back pain. I’ve pulled muscles before and figured the injury would ...

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 ...

The steps where Jesus Christ healed a blind man in the New Testament were uncovered 2,000 years later. According to Fox News, archeologists accomplished the unearthing of nearly eight steps leading ...

Before his weekly Sunday Angelus, the Pope noted that the kingdom of God announced by Jesus Christ is manifested in the integral healing of man. Commenting on the Sunday reading of St. Matthew the ...

Throughout this year of Mark, Jesus’ healing of the sick — physically and spiritually — is prominent. All this year, we’ve seen a recurrent pattern. Jesus encounters a sick person. Someone — either ...

Pope Francis challenged people on Sunday to “let Jesus look at and heal” their hearts. In his Angelus address June 27, the pope said that intimacy with Jesus was the path to inner healing. He said: ...

Photo by William Farlow on Unsplash. The Lectionary offers shorter and longer readings for today’s Gospel from Mark. The shorter reading focuses on the healing of a young girl. If the long option is ...

"Christ Healing the Blind Man" by 17th century French painter Eustache Le Sueur (Wikimedia Commons). Last week, we read in the Gospel of John about the woman at the well, who believes in Jesus and ...

There are 37 miracles of Jesus mentioned in the gospels, and two-thirds of these involved him healing someone. John’s Gospel tells us that what is written only represents a fraction of what Jesus did ...

In recent decades, divine healing has often been overshadowed by extremes — on one side, excessive sensationalism and theological imbalances, and on the other, skepticism and neglect. As a result, ...