The international community is condoning Israel’s behavior by claiming that it has the “right to defend itself” ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel.

Minuscule artifact discovered at the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Sifting Project may reference an official who worked for ...

The Father does not abolish the Old but gives it definitive fulfillment in the Son, and through the Spirit. In the next column, I will write about the New Testament fulfillment in Christ.

The City of Love's 300,000-strong Jewish community lives with a mix of 'vitality and caution,' having coped with increased ...

Divisions of the BibleDivisions of the Bible The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but ...

Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament.