On Sept. 30, 2019 — the Memorial of St. Jerome, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — Pope Francis established that “the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be devoted to the celebration, study and ...

The historian of liturgy Hughes Oliphant Old once observed that “prayer, particularly Christian prayer, uses biblical language. . . . The Bible contains a vast number of paradigms for prayer and a ...

For some decades now it has been a vogue to disparage the confession that the Scriptures are the very Word of God with the claim that since the Bible is made up of “propositional truth” it cannot ...

There are a lot of “re” words in the Bible. Words like redemption, renew, repent, restore, resurrection, reconciliation and regeneration show up over and over throughout the Bible, especially the New ...

A wise man, Alexander Pope, wrote in 1711 that “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” So here I go into the topic of ... religion. The word “God,” the fourth word to appear in the King James ...

Pope Francis has called Catholics to spend more time with the saving power of God’s word as society and social media amplify “the violence of words.” Speaking of the “immense power” that the word of ...

Synod of Bishops on “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church,” Oct. 5-26, 2008 The final product of every Synod of Bishops is a list of formal proposals, or “propositions,” submitted to ...