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 ...

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 According to most Evangelicals, a Christian needs only ...

How should we approach seemingly inconsistent messages in sacred texts? Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification ...

If ever there was a richer set of readings to ponder or exegete than the set from today, I have yet to see it. The third Sunday in Ordinary Time is set aside by the church as Word of God Sunday. The ...

In a Nation essay this year about the wave of successful books vaunting atheism, critic Daniel Lazare wrote the following: For a long time, religion had been doing quite nicely as a kind of minor ...