Challenge today is to extricate the historical, fully human Mary from theological baggage heaped upon her over centuries ...

Archaeologists uncovered evidence at Khirbet Qana that may identify it as the true site of Jesus’ first miracle.

Reaffirming our baptism can be a powerful spiritual resource, especially in times when cruelty is beyond measure and ...

Using a new X-ray technique, scientists have estimated that the shroud may have been made around 2,000 years ago, the same ...

The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

The historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who died in 2007 — and whose specialty was partisan hagiography, particularly on ...

Sister Stevenson entered the community from Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Greece. She earned her associate’s degree in dental ...

From time to ... from Nazareth are far more striking than any superficial similarities. Professor Brownlee (op. cit., pp. 143–51) lists ten such differences: 1. “Unlike Jesus, the Teacher ...

It turns out that Jesus of Nazareth—the Messiah ... In keeping with the customs of the time, his bones were then bundled and buried in a grave—the same mound of earth that is now topped ...

Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, discuss fresh perspectives on ...