Many faith leaders say the charge to help the poor is clear in Scripture, but the religious community is not monolithic on ...

Keith Mascord It is now just over a month since Charlie Kirk’s murder (Sept 10) and Memorial Service (Sept 21). Like many here in Australia, I had not previously heard of Kirk. I was therefore ...

In the Fourth Sunday before Advent in Year C, we are starting a short series reading through 2 Thessalonians, and this week's ...

O Lord, You have searched me and known me” and goes on to describe how God knows the most minute things about him. Later ...

By the time Howard Carter arrived in Egypt most of the great work had already been done. Across the Valley of the Kings archaeologists had uncovered tombs for most of ...

"The truth is, empathy, diversity, equity and inclusion explode from the Gospels," says columnist Bill Leonard.

On Oct. 18, Catholics and other Christians around the world celebrate the feast of St. Luke, the physician and companion of St. Paul whose Gospel preserved the most extensive biography of Jesus Christ ...

At the other end of the missed votes list are lawmakers with perfect or near-perfect attendance. This is most easily ...

The beginning of the Second Vatican Council’s discussion of its decree on the missions, on Nov. 6, 1964, had a particular solemnity. Pope Paul VI decided to use the occasion to make one of his rare ...

The gospels do not provide definitive evidence of the language spoken by the historical Jesus of Nazareth. There is evidence in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:41-51) that suggests Jesus, despite having a ...

The Sunday's lectionary reading for the Third before Advent in Year C is Luke 20.27–38, and epistle is Paul's discussion of the 'man of lawlessness' in 2 Thess 2. For video discussions, see here for ...

• Elizabeth is one of the last faithful voices of the Old Covenant, and John is its final prophet (Malachi 4:5–6). Mary is ...