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As the moment of the Last Supper nears in ‘The Chosen’ season 5 episode 4, a tense air envelopes Jesus and his disciples, the ...
At his general audience on Aug. 11, 2021, Pope Francis delivered a talk titled "Catechesis on the Letter to the Galatians: 4.The Mosaic Law" Among other things, the pope said, "The Law does not ...
We see Roman guards cheerfully slurp oysters in the priests’ faces. (“I enjoy that they’re forbidden,” one says). We see the Pharisees’ derision for King Herod’s hellenization.
There are true Christians among Catholics, but there are also Catholics who are not even Christians at all. Sometimes, even the shepherds of Christ’s Church are themselves lost sheep. In fact ...
Pope Francis already has accepted a request to meet participants in the conference on "Jesus and the Pharisees: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal," which will be held May 7-9 at the Gregorian ...
New Testament scholars Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine share a goal: dissect and demolish 2,000 years of Christians’ disparaging portrayals of the Pharisees, the Jewish rabbis of Jesus’s time.
The Roman magistrate Pliny the Younger (61-113 A.D), who like his friend Tacitus had supervised trials of Christians, documented that early Christians believed Jesus to be a god, and they observed ...
We see Roman guards cheerfully slurp oysters in the priests’ faces. (“I enjoy that they’re forbidden,” one says). We see the Pharisees’ derision for King Herod’s hellenization.
Third Quest scholars, however, question whether Roman authorities really felt deeply threatened by Jesus, who in the Gospels frequently took aim at the hypocrisy of Jewish Pharisees and scribes rather ...