We’ve been looking at the way the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed was the development of perhaps the central theme of ...

Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. But the miracle of Easter didn’t end there.

President Trump's statement on Holy week is causing a stir. In part, he said he and Melania "join in prayer with Christians ...

The Roman world was full of stories of pagan gods rising from the dead ... “The prophets of Israel — Jesus, the early church in Jerusalem, even (the apostle) Paul — all believed in economic ...

Pope Francis, who died this morning at the age of 88, was elevated to the papacy in 2013 on the feast day of Saint Rodrigo.

At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of ... In fact, he impels Jews to take part in pagan sacrifices and eat non-kosher food. In the Temple, Antiochus sets up ...

Israel, through whom I show my glory. Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly spent my strength, yet my reward is with the Lord, my recompense is with my God. For now the ...

Gustavo Morello, Boston College Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with church services, processions, candles, ...

Many theologians had speculated that the phrase “Son of God” was adopted by early Christians after Jesus’ crucifixion, in contrast to the pagan worship of the Roman emperors. But the ...

Paul rose, and “motioning with his hand,” began a sermon about salvation through faith and God’s grace, and not by good deeds alone, saying, “Men of Israel ... and age-old paganism existed ...

Junior Stephen Barnacle grew up in a small town in Indiana, where he said racism and bigotry pushed him and his family away ...