We also know that there was a very large Jewish community in Antioch, and apparently when Paul went there it was because he understood it to offer a very important opportunity for him to preach ...

I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new ...

Thecla's story is one of many in the Apocryphal Acts which portray women giving up riches and sexual activity to follow the Apostles. She is an aristocratic woman who, despite great opposition ...

At the same time, the structures provided an early glimpse of the trajectory church leadership would take, as reflected in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch and ... of Jesus Christ. Paul subsequently ...

COMMENTARY: Who the new pope will be is not exactly who he has been — being Leo is different than being Robert, just as being ...

Joined by a Cypriot named Barnabas, the evangelist set forth to preach the Gospel ... Ekin Özbiçer Eventually, Paul and Barnabas arrived in the Pisidian city of Antioch, the largest in the ...

In Hebrews 5:10, St. Paul wrote that God designated Christ as ... figuratively since He commonly spoke in parables while preaching to the crowds. However, this does not appear to be the case ...

Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch from 185 to 191, stated that “the holy writings teach us, and all the spirit-bearing men . . . .” (Autol. 2.22, ANF). Clement of Rome asserted that Paul’s first ...

As a result, many Jews and Greeks believed the Gospel. Finally, Paul went to Athens and Corinth and preached there, before returning to Antioch of Syria. The below video is his famous preaching in ...

We preach the good news that this world has a Savior ... and God is “all in all,” as St. Paul put it.viii Here’s my third point: We need to strive to recover and live with the same vibrant ...