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From fruits and veggies to proteins and sweets, the Bible mentions a variety of different food items. Here's the literal and ...

A journalist shares some biographical information on who St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV's order, was.

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some ...

(Hosea Chapter 9 verse 10). Thus, when Jesus spoke of the parable of the fig tree in Mathew Chapter 24, verses 32-33. He was talking about Israel: “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as ...

Welcome to the season when sneakers trade places with flip-flops and report-card jitters make way for mosquito bites and ...

He told his followers he was sending them out like sheep among wolves. He said he was a rock that people would be crushed on. He cursed a fig tree. This movie leans into that shocking side of Jesus, ...

“But it’s important to plant trees in a spot where water will not pool.” Ward Dilmore, founder and head landscape designer at Petrus Landscaping, has seen fig trees thriving among stone ...