Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians, now lost, in the fall of 50 CE. The Corinthians pushed back quite hard. They wrote a reply to Paul with a number of questions. In the spring of 51 CE he ...

"I believed, and so I spoke" (2 Corinthians 4:13). These words come from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, an epistle in the New Testament — and provide inspiration for Christians who ...

St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians may without exaggeration be described as one of the richest of all the writings of the New Testament. Its pervading theme of the complete sufficiency of ...

Sts. Timothy and Titus share a feast day (Jan. 26) and their letters from Paul are placed right next to each other in the Bible. These details might lead people to believe that their lives were rather ...

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Nicholas Tom “N.T.” Wright is recognized as one of the preeminent New Testament scholars of this era. He’s a former bishop of Durham and has taught at Oxford University and St. Andrews in Scotland. He ...

During his general audience on Nov. 5, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the central role of Christ’s resurrection in St. Paul’s teaching. St. Paul proclaims the vital significance of the Resurrection: In ...

The Latin Mass, girl acolytes, women preaching, which politicians should be barred from receiving the Eucharist? What's the matter here? How has our central act of worship become the center of such ...