The 32 speakers referred to the Bible 297 times at April’s international general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They referenced the Book of Mormon 226 times, according ...
Mother Seton’s Bible is a great means to ‘introduce people to God and get them closer to God.’ L to R: This copy of Mother Seton’s Bible is owned by the University of Notre Dame; portrait of Elizabeth ...
When editing a piece about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter last Holy Week, I was struck by this line, an excerpt from a letter the martyr wrote his wife before his martyrdom: “Even if yet more difficult ...
Today is the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, and it is also the feast of St. Francis de Sales. One of his many contributions to the Church is in the area of spiritual direction, encouraging all people, ...
One of the most-studied Bible verses of the year is from 2 Timothy in the New Testament, according to an analysis of millions ...
In his preface to the Geneva French Bible, John Calvin exhorts: “You who call yourselves bishops and pastors of the poor people, see to it that the sheep of Jesus Christ are not deprived of their ...
Jaime L. Waters serves as associate professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University and as “The Word” columnist at America since the first Sunday of Advent in 2019. A biblical studies professor, Dr ...
The church fathers show us how to read Scripture imaginatively. When I was a pastor in the 1970s, I introduced my congregation to the Serendipity Bible study materials. Small-groups pioneer Lyman ...