Old Testament priests had to observe sexual abstinence during their periodic terms of duty for making sacrificial offerings — a celibacy of function. Christian priests, ...

Q. Figures from the Old Testament are never referred to as saints. Were there no saints in those days? (Albany, New York) A. Your question is an excellent one, and the answer is a bit complex. It ...

When the priest, the Revd Andrew Woodhouse, tried to pick up the leather-bound Old Testament from a mattress beside the skip at the tip at Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, a member of staff seized it.

Epistle of the New Covenant. Hebrews starts off by elevating Jesus Christ, proving from the OT that He is divine, but that He ...

The Rev. Lawrence Boadt, a Roman Catholic priest, publisher and Bible scholar who used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle for promoting understanding between Christians and Jews, died on ...

Created to Draw Near: Our Life as God’s Royal Priests. Edward T. Welch. At its heart, biblical priesthood inhabits the space between God and his creation, facilitating proximity between them.

As both priest and prophet, John the Baptist prepares the way in more ways than simply preaching the Gospel of repentance. John the Baptist, priest and prophet, is the forerunner of the one who ...

26th Sunday OT. Richard Leonard ... 2008. A young priest was sent by his Bishop to a parish that had a ’red light district’ within its boundaries. On his first day in the parish a nun, ...

There is no such ritual in the Old Testament or in Judaism. Inzoli, an ex-confessor of senators who also had a taste for cigars and high-end restaurants, agreed to pay 125,000 euros ($142,000) in ...

The BYU Museum of Art opened their exhibit 'Prophets, Priests, and Queens: James Tissot's Men and Women of the Old Testament' to the public after eight years of preparation.