Beginning this week and continuing until Lent, Catholics will be listening to the Gospel of Mark at weekday Eucharists. This wasn’t always the case. When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, ...

Now as we try to listen carefully to today's Scripture lessons, there are a couple of things that we need to put into context. First of all, as I mentioned in introducing the Gospel, this event comes ...

If you’ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light: immediately. Mark says it again and again — more than forty times. At first, it ...

Discover Mark’s vision of Jesus as the mysterious figure “the Son of Man,” misunderstood and rejected by all. Learn of this gospel’s direct and stark portrayal of the power revealed through suffering ...

Many people who’ve read the Bible get to the end of the Gospel of Mark and feel the same way. They think there’s something not quite right about it. It turns out that it’s not mere imagination, as ...