Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

Josephus in his book, The Jewish War, also confirmed these events. By the beginning of the 2nd century, Romans were writing about Christians and Jesus. Pliny the Younger, proconsul in Asia Minor ...

What do we know about Jesus from texts apart from the Bible? Jesus is mentioned in the writings of both the Jewish historian Josephus “Antiquities of the Jews” (Bk.XVIII.III.3 written about 93 AD) and ...

The book consists of 999 points that aim to help the faithful pray and encourage them to love God, live for him, and converse ...

God has appointed us to bear fruit. In the spiritual life, it can be hard to judge whether we are blossoming or wilting, so often trapped in isolated thoughts and feelings. Jesus, however, stands as o ...

The transfiguration prepares us for the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. St. Luke’s telling of the event draws us into the mystery of divine love, a love that embraces human suffering and ...

How Jesus' divinity related to Jewish monotheism, a complicated question, involved centuries of further discussion. Likewise, Paul Hartog of Iowa's conservative Faith Baptist Theological Seminary, ...

“In her writings, Jesus calls Maria Valtorta ‘My John,’ kisses his apostles on the mouth, and embraces a half-naked Saint John,” Chevallier said. The Vatican’s latest clarification ...