The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Here are some things to know about the election of the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion faithful ...

The Bible is the subject of countless head-scratching mysteries. For centuries, religious and secular scholars alike have ...

Many of you may remember some of the old songs that we listened to when we were teenagers. We call them “Oldie but Goodies.” ...

Upon his resurrection, Jesus opened his disciples' minds so they might understand him and share his miraculous story with ...

St. Peter warns that Scripture can be distorted — and that Christians need more than personal interpretation to guard the ...

The boneyard that came to life, God said, represented backslidden and rebellious Israel. Ezekiel had been given the ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

We begin with the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. It only took until the fourth verse of Genesis for God to introduce the concept ...

True, we see stars at night, but they are above us during the day too. The sun outshines the others so much that it is as if ...

In lieu of saying “Happy Easter” many of our eastern Christian brethren say “Christ is risen; he is risen indeed!” With the ...

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