Plans are well underway for the annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, one of the most cherished traditions of Westerly’s ...

Data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders reveals that only 25% of Catholic and mainline Protestant pastors say they firmly believe in a literal Adam and Eve. Among Evangelical pastors, the ...

Luke Combs hit the late-night stage for a party with the Backstreet Boys at Stagecoach — he even danced.

Book Review Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus By Elaine Pagels Doubleday: 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

We’re in Year C of the liturgical cycle, and that means the Gospel of Luke is the one we’ll hear most often at Sunday Masses this year. Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s ...

It might also be important to recall that in Luke’s Gospel, the story of the temptation of the Lord in the desert is recounted right after the genealogy of Jesus is explored. The Evangelist St. Luke, ...

Understanding Jesus’ biblical account of his human ancestry can help draw us closer to the universality of our Church and each other. Two genealogies in the New Testament trace Jesus’ human history, ...

Pagels: Yes, these stories circulated after Jesus’ death among members of the Jewish community who regarded him as a false messiah, saying that Jesus’ father was a Roman soldier.

We don’t know. Mark is the earliest Gospel written; Matthew and Luke are basically just revising it. Mark has no suggestion of a virgin birth. Instead, he says that neighbors called Jesus “son ...

At the Wednesday audience, the pontiff began his reflection on Christ's childhood. The meanings related to genealogy are explained with women's names at the start of the Gospel of Matthew.

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world ...