"People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins bursts ... Vatican Radio published excerpts from his homily: "In the Christian life, even in the life of the Church, there ...

One of the conservative arguments against change in the church goes like this: Because the Spirit is guiding the church, it has always been perfect, and therefore change can only be an extension ...

[Editor’s Note: Dr. Alessandro Rovati is a Full-Time Lecturer and Chair of Theology at Belmont Abbey College, and he is a member of the New Wine, New Wineskins’ Board of Directors. Rovati’s ...

Wine is first mentioned in the New Testament’s first book, the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus says: “‘Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins ... to do in the life of every ...

In his homily, he reviewed the 100 years of missionary and charitable commitment of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, urging them to embrace with new fervor the work of announcing the Gospel ...

The early Western church maintained the custom of wine and unleavened bread. The Eastern church soon began to use leavened bread, seeing the leaven as a symbol of new life in Christ. In the West ...

I wonder if they’re not trying to pour new wine into old wineskins, biblically speaking. The denomination’s move comes at a time when I’ve been reading about racial reconciliation.