"Jesus absolutely treated women differently than the prevailing religious authorities of his time," author Mary Demuth says. RNS: You say that Jesus’ interactions with women were “shocking considering ...

In the fourth chapter of John’s Gospel, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman drawing water from Jacob’s well. Although little is known about this anonymous woman, it is at least implied by their ...

The Bible states that one day Jesus was on his way to Galilee and he had to go through a town in Samaria called Sychar. This was located near a plot of ground Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. Jesus ...

Chris Quilala was part of a youth group band in the 1990s that went on to lead a youth conference in 1999. From that start, Jesus Culture held more conferences, recorded albums and started a church.

Jesus never forgets the day we encountered Him for the first time; we should ask God for the “grace of memory” so that we can always remember it. That was the Pope’s hope for us in the homily at Mass ...

The capacity to recognize ourselves as sinners opens us to the astonishment at the encounter with Jesus: that was the message of Pope Francis Thursday morning during Mass for the feast of Saint ...