Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 She is a famous television character, instantly recognized by baby boomers. She rose to lasting fame without ever saying ...

Major religions of the world have sacred Scriptures, sometimes called canons. This is certainly the case in Christianity and Islam. Christianity has a collection of sacred writings commonly called the ...

Visitors are pictured in a file photo looking at a Caravaggio painting titled “St. Jerome Writing” during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Pope Francis released “Scripturae Sacrae ...

"The Curse of Cowardice": the Martial Power of the Sermon -- "The Lord is a Man of War": Moses, the Exodus, and the Spirit of '76 -- "Cursed Be He that Keepeth Back ...

My chat with Karen Armstrong about the sacred texts of scripture begins with Lion Man – Löwenmensch, in German – on display in the Ulm Museum on the River Danube: 31.1 centimetres high, 5.6 ...

In the spiritual life, we are called to engage our bodies and spiritual souls. The different prayer forms of the Church are meant to help and guide us in this process. We cannot separate our bodies ...

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COMMENTARY: Pope Francis established a new important annual feast, the Sunday of the Word of God, to accentuate the importance sacred Scripture is meant to have in the faith, prayer and lives of ...

While reading the Bible may be associated with Protestantism in the minds of some, love of Scripture is at the core of the Catholic Church, said the apostolic nuncio to the United States. "The love ...

Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...