Maybe you've heard them since childhood and know them by heart, but what do some of those Old Testament stories really mean? A son betrays his father. A...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
Will Saint Paul’s letters to the Romans play in Peoria? In an interview, Father Joseph Fitzmyer, S.J. offers clues to understanding the evangelizer whose...
The development of Christian family values is a central aspect of Christianity's ongoing self-interpretation in the 20th century. That development is...
Sometime in the late 12th century a monk named Guigo, the second prior of the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in France, wrote to his friend Gervase about...
How did your love for the Bible develop? I became interested in scripture as a boy. I stutter sometimes, and when I heard that Moses stuttered-that he was...
In the year 373 The See of Milan fell vacant and the emperor dispatched Ambrose, governor of the province and scion of an aristocratic Roman family, to...
You are critical of the prevailing view among Catholics of their own history and role in the United States. What is the story line of the tradition you call...
You've taught scripture for virtually all of your adult life. What led you to devote your life to it? When I was growing up, the Bible was not an honored...
Thenaming in 1997 of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux as a "Doctor of the church" by Pope John Paul II caused Catholics around the...
DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON All people are sacred, made in the image and likeness of God. People do not lose dignity because of disability, poverty, age, lack...
