Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

Bob Dylan and acclaimed actor Harry Dean Stanton once performed a stunning (and surprising) rendition of the Jewish folk song "Hava Nagila".

The Third Epistle of John (3 John) is the shortest book in the New Testament, with a word count of 219 words in the original ...

The New Testament like the Old Testament has also a threefold division: 1) Historical books (the Gospels and the Acts); 2) Didactic writings (the fourteen Pauline Epistles and the seven Catholic ...

Paul was no armchair theologian. His letters always contain and usually end with practical and personal considerations. It is ...

In the Church, we are made children of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- the God who makes known His name and His ways to Moses in today's First Reading. Mindful of His covenant with Abra ...

They committed the office of bishop into the hands of Linus. Of this, Linus, Paul makes mention in the Epistles to Timothy. To him succeeded Anacletus. After him, in the third place from the ...

The gospel lectionary reading is Luke 13.1–9. Paul engages in his characteristic Christological reading, drawing parallels ...

The gospel lectionary reading is Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32, the parable of the Forgiving Father (or the Prodigal Son), which works well with it. Many people will be preaching on the theme of Mothering ...

Of course controversy for the sake of controversy is not to be engaged in. But controversy that comes about because of a ...

You know the story in Matthew 4:1-11. Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert where he spends 40 days and nights fasting.

One does not ordinarily think of the following activities as having deep political implications, or as sending a strong ...