You can watch Msgr. LaMorte’s homily from this morning’s Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral here.
Many of us have experienced the pain of being harshly judged, including Jesus Christ during His lifetime. Today’s Gospel asks us why we would want to inflict that kind of pain on another person.
In this in-between stretch of Ordinary Time, between the high feast of Christmas and the solemn preparation of Lent, we find ourselves in a new place as we settle into the New Year.
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By all appearances, January's consistory was a first step to returning to a more collegial sense of governance that has largely marked the exercise of papal ministry since the Second Vatican Council.
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| 01/17/2026
In today's Gospel, we learn a lot about what Jesus came to do. All of us need the healing mercy of our Lord. Father Salvo talks about those in greatest need of healing: the Pharisees.