Not long ago, I was walking through the condiment section of the grocery store and I heard a little child having a hard time breathing. Since asthma also affects my lungs, I immediately felt tightness ...

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Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

On this day Mary and Joseph bring the child Jesus to the Temple ... The Temple is now in heaven as the continuing priestly presence of Christ, who ascended there after his resurrection from ...

Thousands of years later, Jesus Christ — the king of kings ... taught and ate with his disciples, and ascended into heaven after 40 days. The two Biblical passages bear remarkable similarities ...

Thomas, like Bartholomew, is one of the Twelve Disciples we would not know much about if it was not for John recording a ...

This recent discovery in the City of David could shine a light on this important part of the Bible that could actually be ...

Jesus said to her, 'Stop holding on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father ... new way of fishing—fishing for people. Father in heaven, author of all truth, a people once in darkness ...

Perhaps it’s never been possible to have agreement on the definition of a faith tradition; ideas about what it means to follow a religion have always been fluid and contentious. I read a ...

We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning ...

On each bead say: Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament ... and Jacob dreamt about a ladder between heaven and earth on which angels ascended and descended. The ladder even appears in Michelangelo's Sistine ...