It happened one too many times. My Seeing Eye dog and I went to church and heard another totally uninspiring homily about John 9, the story of the man born blind. It contained the usual elements ...

The Pharisees asked the formerly blind man about the man who healed him, who said: “He is a prophet.” Advertisement The infuriated Pharisees bring in the man’s parents, asking: ...

"Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind," the beggar whose eyes were opened by Jesus told the Pharisees (John 9:32, ESV). He was healed more ...

SCRIPTURES & ART: In one sense, the man born blind is everyman — every one of us — born blind because of original sin.

As noted last week, the Church provides two options for its readings on the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent.The Year B reading for today is John 3:14-21 (“For God so loved the world ...