Day 6 includes the creation of man, not in the sense of “male” but in the sense of mankind, humanity. Unlike Genesis 2, ...

Access to divine life is cut off by man’s choice. Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger ...

The call of Eretz Israel, the biblical ‘promised land’, is one that both the secularists and the religious Zionists of Israel ...

According to the Bible, the Canaanite city of Sodom was destroyed by a "rain of sulfur and fire." Currently, scientists ...

According to the Bible, the Canaanite city of Sodom was destroyed by a "rain of sulphur and fire." Nowadays, scientists ...

Issuing a general invitation through a front page story in the Times Observer (Jan. 13), I attended the presentation called “Examining LGBTQIA+ Scripture: A Conversation on Inclusion and Understanding ...

Along the journey, Abram was promised a son (Genesis 15:1-6), and he and Sarah became parents in their old age. The birth of ...

Dubbed the prayerbook of the church, the Book of Psalms was first the prayerbook of Israel and the only prayerbook of Jesus. The Holy Year booklet on this topic was written by Gianfranco Cardinal Rava ...

Ed Lapiz, who popularized a more accessible preaching style, is courting controversy by rejecting the God of the Old ...

The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... The pact between God and Abraham was sealed by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the ...

In today’s responsorial psalm, I saw these thoughts reflected: “Do not forget the works of the Lord! What we have heard and know, and what our fathers have declared to us, we will declare to the ...

Lydia Zorzi of Bayside said she was 70 when she wrote her first poem.And she acknowledges that her new book of poetry, ...